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Thinking North America
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Inroads
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July 1, 2008
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It was the Spanish part of the invention of America that liberated Western man from the fetters of a prison-like conception of his physical world, and it was the English part that liberated him from subordination to a Europecentred conception of his historical world. In these two great liberations lies the hidden and true significance of American history.
- Edmundo O'Gorman, The Invention of America1
What exactly does it mean to be a North American? Europeans have been engaged in a long-running debate about the meaning and nature of Europe, not only in the last 50 or 60 years with the emergence of the European Union but for many centuries before. Does it make sense to engage similarly with ...
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