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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... responses to the New World : replication and nostalgia of Hispanic responses . If one accepts this version of history , or something like it , then to compare the United States and Latin America is risible , because the first was ...
... response to European annexations , the United States was uniquely capable of response . This was not entirely a matter of wealth . Brazil , Chile , and Argentina were all buyers of the most advanced weapons sys- tems of the time . But ...
... response to Catholic migrations in the nineteenth century . These , in their turn , were partly economic but also reflected oppressive systems of labour and land tenure in Italy , Ireland and elsewhere . And indeed , the Romantic move ...