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  Americas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Americas are the lands of the Western hemisphere or New World consisting of the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions.
In many parts of the world, America in the singular is commonly used as a name for the United States of America; however, (the) Americas (plural with s and generally with the definite article) is not and is invariably used to refer to the lands and regions of the Western hemisphere.
Latin America is typically contrasted with Anglo-America where English, a Germanic language, prevails: namely, Canada and the United States (in Northern America) have predominantly British roots and are quite different in terms of linguistical, cultural, and economic situation from other countries in the Americas.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Americas   (2373 words)

  
 Anglo-America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anglo-America is a term used to describe those parts of the Americas in which English is the main language, or having significant historical, linguistic, and cultural links to England/United Kingdom or the British Isles in general.
to describe relations between the United Kingdom on one hand and the Americas, in particular the United States, on the other.
This usage occurs most frequently in the discussion of the history of English-speaking people of the United States and the Spanish-speaking people residing in the western U.S. during the Mexican American War.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anglo-America   (335 words)

  
 Anglo-American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pertaining to Anglo-America, a term denoting mixed English and American influence or heritage, or those parts of or groups within the Americas which have a tie to or which are influenced by England; or simply English-speaking America
Anglo American plc, one of the largest mining conglomerates in the world.
Anglo's assets are increasingly dispersed outside of its South African origins, with corporate headquarters now located in London.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anglo-American   (167 words)

  
 North America. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
North America includes all of the mainland and related offshore islands lying N of the Isthmus of Panama (which connects it with South America).
North America, extending to within 10° of latitude of both the equator and the North Pole, embraces every climatic zone, from tropical rain forest and savanna on the lowlands of Central America to areas of permanent ice cap in central Greenland.
North America’s extensive agricultural lands (especially in Canada and the United States) are a result of the interrelationship of favorable climatic conditions, fertile soils, and technology.
www.bartleby.com /65/na/NAmer.html   (896 words)

  
 TOQ-John Attarian-Huntington-Vol 4 No 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
America would not be what she is, he avers, had she been settled by anybody other than English Protestants.
Much of America’s identity crisis, he rightly observes, is the work of “denationalized” academic, business, professional, and political elites—hostile to the very idea of the nation, embracing a universalist morality, seeing themselves as citizens of the world, and loyal to transnational organizations such as multinational corporations.
I believe one of the greatest achievements, perhaps the greatest achievement, of America is the extent to which it has eliminated the racial and ethnic components that historically were central to its identity and has become a multiethnic, multiracial society in which individuals are to be judged on their merits.
theoccidentalquarterly.com /vol4no3/ja-huntington.html   (8036 words)

  
 James D. Drake | Appropriating a Continent: Geographical Categories, Scientific Metaphors, and the Construction of ...
America, a fairly recent geographical invention in Jefferson's time, thus had aboriginal inhabitants fundamentally different than Asians by virtue of their ancient roots.
His readers, he suggested, must not "rest faith in count de Buffon" and his claim that "America is an entirely new country." To counter Buffon he detailed ancient native migrations and heeded the voices of Indians in capturing their past.
For Clavigero America might have been one of the four parts of the world, even a continent, but this didn't lend unity to its inhabitants, even the natives, nor did it provide a template for the future.
www.historycooperative.org /journals/jwh/15.3/drake.html   (13185 words)

  
 "Anglo-America"
It is generally taken to include the United States of America and Canada, although a significant proportion of Canadians do not speak English as their primary language.
america would do itself a diservice by reducing itself from the pedestal of the land of the free to a linguistic grouping.
people don't come to america because of the language but because of the symbolism attached to her youth and fresh spirit.
www.unitednorthamerica.org /phpBB2/ntopic822.html   (664 words)

  
 AngloAmerican -
America Mineral Fields Inc. ("AMZ") and Anglo American plc ("Anglo American") today announce that the shareholding of their joint venture company Congo Mineral Developments Limited ("CMD"), the entity which holds their interests in the Kolwezi cobalt-copper tailings project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has been restructured.
Anglo Base Metals (a division of Anglo American) has decided to divest its 50% stake in CMD as part of its global strategy to restructure its base metal portfolio and to focus on major interests in larger scale projects.
Anglo American plc is one of the world's largest mining and natural resource groups.
www.angloamerican.co.uk /article/?afw_source_key=3C72AA9C-9F5B-4758-9C10-4A35B2B290A2&xsl_menu_parent=/newsandmedia/pressreleases/archive2002   (703 words)

  
 Return of the Know-Nothings by Terry Golway, America: The Catholic Weekly Magazine
Given the culture of grievance that seems to dominate so much historical writing these days, it is surprising how infrequently the catalogers of complaint see fit to mention the Know-Nothing movement in the United States in the 19th century.
The intellectual founder (and financier) of the Know-Nothing movement was Samuel F. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, an eminently respectable and respected American and a rabid anti-Catholic.
America, the online weekly Catholic magazine of news, opinion, book reviews and articles for the thinking Catholic and those who want to know what the Catholic people are thinking.
www.americamagazine.org /gettext.cfm?articleTypeID=7&textID=3508&issueID=479   (917 words)

  
 Geography of Latin America Course Proposal
The geography of Latin America is designed to give students a view of an area of the world that possesses a culture different from that of Anglo-America.
These differences are examined with special emphasis on the relationship in Latin America between Latinos and Native Americans, Latinos and Africans, the social classes in each country, the landowners and the landless, the Latinos and the outsiders (especially Anglo-Americans).
The areas of Latin America are examined with an emphasis on their cultural landscapes.
www.winona.edu /ifo/courseproposals/Geography/ay2001-02/Geo225.htm   (864 words)

  
 Anglo-America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
North America in which English is the main language.
It is generally taken to include the United States of America and English Canada.
It can be used to describe relations between England or the United Kingdom on one hand and the Americas, in particular the United States, on the other.
anglo-america.mindbit.com   (246 words)

  
 AngloAmerican - Home
Anglo American wishes to draw attention to Anglo Platinum's announcement of their interim results for the period ended 30 June 2006.
Anglo American wishes to draw attention to Highveld Steel and Vanadium's announcement of their interim results for the period ended 30 June 2006.
Anglo American plc, Evraz Group S.A. and Credit Suisse are pleased to announce that agreement has been reached in relation to the sale by Anglo American of its shares in Highveld Steel and Vanadium Corporation Limited (“Highveld”).
www.angloamerican.co.uk   (319 words)

  
 Latin America
In Latin America, the overwhelming burden of Hispanic institutions in a region which has been independent of direct Spanish rule for nearly two centuries.
Latin America, for all its variety, as a showcase for all the problems of the "underdeveloped" world, despite the fact that it has been theoretically independent for a long time, and theoretically democratic for a long time.
Contrasts between Anglo-America and Hispanic America: a laundry-list of reasons why it made a difference whether England or Spain originally settled a particular area.
www.ems.psu.edu /~williams/world/lamerica.htm   (789 words)

  
 New America Foundation : article -33- "Taking the Oath - Why We Need a Revisionist History of Latinos in America" ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The study of America's Latinos has since been thoroughly dominated by activist scholars and writers who either once participated in or who still emulate the ethnic campus politics of a generation ago.
In "Occupied America," Acuna was perhaps among the first to openly declare that Mexicans did not come to the United States in order to improve their economic prospects.
In an energetic chapter titled "Buscando America," he tackles the multifaceted and ever-changing nature of what he calls "Latinidad." He perceptively concludes that "to be Latino in the United States.
www.newamerica.net /index.cfm?pg=article&DocID=33   (1980 words)

  
 Anglo-America wins
The real story, he concluded, was not America's triumph over England but the eventual triumph of the two major English-speaking countries over the rest of the world.
In the American Civil War the most ardent abolitionists were the descendants of those who had marched with Cromwell and been in the forefront of the American fight for independence.
Whether America's emergence as the world's dominant power could have occurred without Cromwell's victory at Marston Moor in 1664 will, of course, remain one of the many "what if" questions of history.
www.chron.com /cgi-bin/auth/story/content/chronicle/ae/books/9899/04/04/phillips.html   (928 words)

  
 Sample text for Library of Congress control number 96002144
Here, the "natural aristocracy" of North America, students from all classes selected by rigorous examination and admitted without any reference to family income, study in the hope of becoming leaders of their respective republics in the Pacific northwest, the California coast, the Canadian prairie.
The colonization of eastern North America by the English was a project pushed by a small circle of courtiers, businessmen and intellectuals around Sir Walter Raleigh, many of whom were also involved in the colonization of Ireland by Protestants.
In the New World, these different immigrant groups tended to preserve the dialects, customs, and folkways of the parts of Britain from which they had come their subcultures formed the basis of American regional cultures that persist to this day and are shared by millions of Americans with no English ancestors.
www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/simon031/96002144.html   (3532 words)

  
 PM - Anglo-America's bid for Anaconda takes new twists
The public relations battle surrounding Anglo American's bid to increase its influence on the Perth based Anaconda Company is taking new twists and turns.
First there was Anglo America's move to pay shareholders to attend focus groups.
Anglo says it's commissioned focus groups in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth so that Anaconda shareholders understand the situation.
www.abc.net.au /pm/stories/s288280.htm   (501 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America: Books: Kevin P. Phillips   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Hessians were hated because they were billeted on the population and because their moonlighting drove down wages.
Forty-seven years later, the last Stuart, James II, lost the throne (though not his head) largely because he too was seen as lusting after the religio-political position of the Bourbons.
Direct rule of America, these generals agreed, offended both the Rights of Englishmen and their Protestant understanding of the individual as an actor in the world.
www.amazon.ca /Cousins-Wars-Religion-Politics-Anglo-America/dp/0465013694   (2768 words)

  
 Orozco and Anglo-America
The panel that follows depicts a Latin America which is symbolized by a revolutionist [Zapata] whom a bemedalled general is about to knife: rather, whom he is in the act of stabbing.
I think that Latin America's history of almost unabated revolutions and political violence since 1810 adds a dimension to the word 'individual' that is beyond our understanding of that word.
Perhaps in a two-class society, such as prerevolutionary Latin America, the 'individualist' separates himself from the constraints of caste by becoming a 'revolutionist' who foments chaos and disorder.
www.dartmouth.edu /~library/Library_Bulletin/Apr1992/LB-A92-Levenson.html   (2554 words)

  
 Are Latinos and Latinas treated equally by Anglo America? - Pet Sins Webzine December 2001
In post-conquest California in the late 19th century, a society in which Anglos became the majority and enacted blatantly anti-Mexican policies, most Anglo-Mexican intermarriage was between Anglo American males and the daughters of wealthy "Spanish" families.
Anglo men wanted to marry these mestiza women for material reasons, so they typed them as "Spanish", hence "white".
"Race" as it is used in post-colonial Americas is an arbitrary categorization and has no scientific meaning, but it is being used to divide people of different cultural heritage, and further divide men and women within the same ethnic group.
www.colorq.org /petsins/article.asp?y=2001&m=12&x=12_1   (351 words)

  
 Amazon.de: The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America: English Books: Kevin P. Phillips   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Phillips (Arrogant Capital) is one of the most influential political analysts in America.
There are some parallels with JCD's Clark's emphasis on the primacy of religious discourse in Early Modern Britain and America, but Clark is a difficult writer and _The Cousin's Wars_ is very readable, and anyway goes a lot further than Clark.
Although Fischer's focus is primarily that of the continuity of cultural patterns, he leaves a wealth of ideas for other people to work with.
www.amazon.de /Cousins-Wars-Religion-Politics-Anglo-America/dp/0465013694   (1537 words)

  
 Bibliography - The Anglosphere Challenge by James C. Bennett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
My describing them as "General Source Works on the Anglosphere Question" indicates their importance to my thinking, rather than implying that their authors endorse or agree with the arguments of this work in part or in full, credit or blame for which is entirely mine.
Although she has an acute understanding of the role of multiculturalist ideology in contributing to this decline, she fails to see the stronger economic pressures, which also undercut the coherence of the current American national state.
This is a popular account of the first century of the Anglosphere’s extension into North America, with particular regard to the political context of the founding and possible sabotage of the Roanoke colony within Elizabethan court politics.
www.anglospherechallenge.com /biblio.html   (9186 words)

  
 What We Will Be   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Throughout our history, Huntington argues, America has been understood to be more than a vast “nation of immigrants” united only by their allegiance to the Bill of Rights.
Of course, the story of America is more than simply a matter of ethnic group after ethnic group dropping its old identity in favor of a static Anglo-Protestant American-ness — as Huntington sometimes implies.
Even in the colonial era, it was the American colonies’ willingness to welcome a wide pool of foreign immigrants that distinguished them from rival colonies, where only subjects of the ruling monarch, French or Spanish, were permitted to settle.
www.theamericanscene.com /pubs/pr10-1104.html   (2163 words)

  
 Who We Will Be by Ross Douthat - Policy Review, No. 127   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
This distinction is crucial for Huntington, who insists that it is the initial settler culture — English in language and custom, Protestant in religious inclination — into which every subsequent immigrant group has assimilated, losing their own particular identity in a general Anglo-Protestant sea.
For people who share his unfashionable form of patriotism, the problem is not that America cannot continue on its present course, but rather that it can — that the end of Huntington’s America will not mean the end of America itself.
But while the term “empire” may be redolent of decline and dissolution in this post-colonial age, America’s position in the world has never been more secure — her military and economic might unmatched, her supposed rivals (China, Russia, the eu) weak and beset with internal contradictions, her cultural power unparalleled.
www.policyreview.org /oct04/douthat.html   (2214 words)

  
 The Hispanic West: The West as Mexico
Presently, for instance, Anglo Americans rarely play a part other than oppressor and exploiter of powerless minorities in the West.
This approach posits that Anglos had fairly neutral notions about race and that views about immorality, indolence, and vice emanated from negative relations centered on certain social and economic conditions.
Indeed, the push north from Mexico was as significant as westward expansion, a point dramatized today as Hispanics have come to compose the majority of citizens in some sections of southwestern states (similarly, immigration from Asia in the last few decades reminds us of still another direction).
www.colorado.edu /AmStudies/lewis/west/hispan.htm   (1380 words)

  
 Brazzil - Brazil 24/7 :: View topic - Anglo-America and Latin and "Hispanic" America
Latin America refers to the countries of South and North America (including Central America and the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants speal a Romance Language.
The reason for these diversities is because a large percentage of the people in Latin America are of mixed blood, the result of racial intermingling among European settlers, African slaves, and American natives.
The Romance languages are a subfamily of the Italic Language specifically the descendants of the Vulgar Latin (Vulgar Latin is a blanket term covering the vernacular dialects of the Latin Language spoken in the vast provinces of Roman Empire starting from the second and third century).
www.brazzilbrief.com /viewtopic.php?t=12479   (2813 words)

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