Greg Grandin's account of a history
of the Western Hemisphere (North, Central,
South/Latin America) :
2025 : Penguin Publisher
page xxv in the "Introduction"
America, Ame'rica_
argues that the New
World's magpie rivalry,
its immanent critique, played
a vital role in the creation of
the modern world, shaping
its economics, politics, and
moralities. The Protestant
settlers who colonized,
followed by the republicans
who revolutionized. North
America looked to Spanish
America not as an alien other
but as a competitor, a contender
in an epic struggle to define a
set of nominally shared but
actually contested ideals:
Christianity, freedom, law,
sovereignty, property, equality,
liberalism, democracy, and,
above all, the very meaning
of America.
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