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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... recent revisionist work on United States military culture has proceeded as though oblivious to ways in which it has been closing the gap between US ways of war and those of other American states , while distancing both from Europe.36 ...
... recent decades been in the range 0.4-0.45 and 0.6-0.65 respectively , while those for the UK and Argentina have ranged between 0.25-0.35 and 0.25-0.4.51 In short , of each of the two pairs of countries - the USA and the UK ; Brazil and ...
... recent press coverage of urban violence , and a cynic might ask whether homicides committed by the authorities are , as in several countries , excluded from the statistics . Regarding violent crime in general , Mauricio Rubio found not ...