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»Global« is everywhere - recent years have seen a significant proliferation of the adjective »global« across discourses. But what do social actors actually do when using this term?Written from within the political studies and International Relations disciplines, and with a particular interest in the US, this book demonstrates that the widespread use of »global« is more than a linguistic curiosity. It constitutes a distinct political phenomenon of major importance: the negotiation and reproduction of the »new world«. As such, the analysis of the use of »global« provides fascinating insights into an influential and politically loaded aspect of contemporary imaginations of the world.

Globalization. --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Globalization --- Political aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Culture. --- International Relations. --- Political Discourse. --- Political Language. --- Political Science. --- Political Theory. --- Politics. --- Rhetorics. --- The New World. --- USA. --- Uncertainty.

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Claudio Véliz adopts the provocative metaphor of foxes and hedgehogs that Isaiah Berlin used to describe opposite types of thinkers. Applying this metaphor to modern culture, economic systems, and the history of the New World, Véliz provides an original and lively approach to understanding the development of English and Spanish America over the past 500 years. According to Véliz, the dominant cultural achievements of Europe's English- and Spanish-speaking peoples have been the Industrial Revolution and the Counter-Reformation, respectively. These overwhelming cultural constructions have strongly influenced the subsequent historical developments of their great cultural outposts in North and South America. The British brought to the New World a stubborn ability to thrive on diversity and change that was entirely consistent with their vernacular Gothic style. The Iberians, by contrast, brought a cultural tradition shaped like a vast baroque dome, a monument to their successful attempt to arrest the changes that threatened their imperial moment. Véliz writes with erudition and wit, using a multitude of sources--historians and classical sociologists, Greek philosophers, today's newspaper sports pages, and modern literature--to support a novel explanation of the prosperity and expanding cultural influence of the gothic fox and the economic and cultural decline endured by the baroque hedgehog.

Comparative civilization. --- Comparative civilization --- Latin America --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Civilization, Comparative --- Civilization --- North America --- Great Britain --- Spain --- Spanish influences. --- British influences. --- Economic conditions. --- Spanish influences --- British influences --- Economic conditions --- anthropology. --- baroque mindset. --- british empire. --- colonization. --- counter reformation. --- cultural achievements. --- cultural constructions. --- cultural decline. --- cultural studies. --- cultural traditions. --- culture. --- economic systems. --- economics. --- economy. --- english america. --- historical developments. --- imperialism. --- industrial revolution. --- latin american history. --- modern culture. --- north america. --- philosophy. --- sociology. --- south america. --- spanish america. --- the new world. --- world history.

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Christopher Columbus authored over a hundred documents, many of them letters giving testimony on the Discovery to Isabela and Ferdinand. In this first book in English to focus specifically on these writings, Margarita Zamora offers an original analysis of their textual problems and ideological implications. Her comprehensive study takes into account the newly discovered "Libro Copiador," which includes previously unknown letters from Columbus to the Crown. Zamora examines those aspects of the texts that have caused the most anxiety and disagreement among scholars--questions concerning Columbus's destination, the authenticity and authority of the texts attributed to him, Las Casas's editorial role, and Columbus's views on the Indians. In doing so she opens up the vast cultural context of the Discovery. Exploring the ways in which the first images of America as seen through European eyes both represented and helped shape the Discovery, she maps the inception and growth of a discourse that was to dominate the colonizing of the New World.

Americas - General --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Style, Literary. --- Ontdekkingsreizen. --- Historia da america. --- Literarisches Werk. --- Exploration. --- America. --- Columbus, Christopher --- Colón, Cristóbal, --- Columbus, Christopher. --- Colomb, Christophe, --- Colombo, Cristoforo. --- Literary art. --- Style. --- America --- Amérique --- History and criticism. --- Découverte et exploration. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- Writing skill. --- Early accounts to 1600 --- Colombo, Cristoforo --- Colomb, Christophe --- Columbus, Christoffel --- Colombus, Christophorus --- Colón, Cristóbal --- Kolumbus, Christoph --- Americas --- New World --- Western Hemisphere --- History and criticism --- 1492. --- appropriation. --- authenticity. --- authority. --- cartography. --- christopher columbus. --- colonialism. --- columbus. --- destination. --- discovery of the americas. --- discovery. --- expeditions. --- exploration. --- ferdinand. --- gender. --- ideology. --- indigenous peoples. --- isabela. --- journey. --- las casas. --- latin america. --- latin american history. --- latin american literature and culture series. --- libro copiador. --- literary letters. --- native americans. --- native peoples. --- pilgrimage. --- testimony. --- the crown. --- the new world. --- travel narratives. --- world history.