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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... nineteenth century , to the Americas being thought of as constituting a rel- atively homogeneous and distinctive realm , very much as most of those who fought for independence throughout the hemisphere in the half - century 4 John H ...
... nineteenth century . It was fed by the work of Arthur Gobineau ( 1816–1882 ) in France , whose Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races was published in Paris between 1853 and 1855 , by a misidentification of linguistic and genetic ...
... nineteenth century . The Black Legend was developed by English propagandists during two long centuries of intermittent warfare with Spain . Its nineteenth - century romanticization was in part a response to Catholic migrations in the ...