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Finding Freedom: America's Distinctive Cultural Formation Book

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  • Finding Freedom: America's Distinctive Cultural Formation
  • Written by author John Harmon McElroy
  • Published by Southern Illinois University Press, December 1989
  • Seeking to determine precisely what it means to be an American, John Harmon McElroy compares the cultural history of the United States with the cultural histories of Brazil, Canada, Europe, and Spanish America. McElroy demonstrates that American cu
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Seeking to determine precisely what it means to be an American, John Harmon McElroy compares the cultural history of the United States with the cultural histories of Brazil, Canada, Europe, and Spanish America.

McElroy demonstrates that American culture is the least European of the four continental cultures developed after 1492. He believes the essential variance stems from the fact that the United States is populated by people and their descendants who chose the United States as home. In contrast, because immigration to Canada, Brazil, and South America was controlled by the European governments, they reflect a stronger European cultural outlook and orientation than the United States.

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New edition (prev. 1977 and '82) of a gentle guide to accounting, inventory, credit, budgeting, interest, forecasting cost-benefit analysis. American character.) By comparing the cultural history of the US with that of Brazil, Canada, Europe, and Spanish America, McElroy seeks to identify the uniqueness of American culture. Although many factors are considered, the pivotal one is that the US is populated by people who chose it as their home, and that the pluralism produced by free immigration resulted in a lack of uniform (or Europeanized) religious and cultural values. (This thesis, unfortunately, can only be sustained by treating the import of slaves and the genocide of aboriginal peoples as peripheral phenomena, rather than central to the formulation of the Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)


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