The Pan-American dream

"Harrison continues his provocative but hardly novel thesis established in prior works, that the most important factor explaining US and Canadian 'progress' and Latin American 'underdevelopment' is 'the contrast between Anglo-Protestant and Ibero-Catholic culture.' Thus his answer to subtitle question is 'not necessarily' but a successful process will be very difficult"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

First sentence: In the five centuries since Columbus stumbled upon the New World in his quest for a western sea route to Asia, the colonies and subsequent countries of the Western Hemisphere have followed very different paths that have led to striking contrasts in their circumstances at the end of the twentieth century.

Year

1997

Language

English

Publisher

Westview Press

Editions

8

Pages

324

ISBN

9780813334707

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