American CivilizationInstitute for the Study of the Americas, 2007 - 105 páginas This thought-provoking book demonstrates that, far from being a unique entity, the United States is the most American of nations. It shares with its neighbors to the south an aspiration for equal opportunities and freedoms in a society both defined and divided by race. As Charles A. Jones points out, the United States is distinguished from its neighbors chiefly by the greater material capabilities it has been able to apply to this historic task. Although it is sometimes regarded as Western, Jones points out the extremes to which the United States differs from Western Europe: from distinctive levels and styles of religiosity to public violence to respect for law to concern with material accumulation. These traits, far from constituting a claim to exceptionality, bind the U.S. firmly to the rest of the American hemisphere. In fact, Jones argues, it was separated only by the strange accident of historiography that created a Latin America little more than a century ago. He projects that these perceived differences between the United States and its southern neighbors will fade in the near future, and looks forward to a truly inclusive America. |
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... less consis- tent applications of law , confession , taxation and military service through to the finest capillaries and remotest extremities of society.65 By contrast , the Americas were unsettled ( and unsettling ) . Think of the way ...
... less than twelve states to sign and subsequently ratify an Antarctic Treaty in Washington in December 1959. No less than sixty secret preparatory meetings in Washington had prepared the ground , while the International Geophysical Year ...
... less conscious reaction against a European states - system defined by heredity and the balance of power and in defiance of more or less substantial populations of indigenous and African - American non- citizens has made them profoundly ...