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United States --- Civilization --- British influences.

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Social classes --- Creoles --- Jamaica --- Jamaica --- Jamaica --- Social life and customs. --- Social conditions. --- Civilization --- British influences.

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"The monograph lists the cases at the international court of the two British judges who were members of the Permanent Court of Justice, and the five British judges who were members of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), together with a short biography of each and a sample of his/her writing. Then, academic works and the separate and dissenting opinions at the ICJ of Judge Sir Arnold McNair and Judge Sir Hersch Lauterpacht are reviewed. Finally, an attempt is made to find their common ground"--

International courts --- Judges --- International law --- History. --- British influences. --- Permanent Court of International Justice --- International Court of Justice

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"As Van Vugt's analysis of English immigrants in the United States is an appropriate place to begin this collection, so Sutton's essay is a fitting one to conclude it. Sutton confirms in many ways a belief shared by all of us involved in this project: that as with other ethnicities in North America, English culture did not disappear into a larger mainstream but instead was adapted, merged, and transformed into something hybrid. St. Patrick's Day, for example, began in North America as an exclusive ethnic festival for Irish immigrants, but it has been transformed into something that is as much, if not more, American as it is Irish. Preserved by ethnic associations for their future "hyphenated" generations, this idea of a symbiotic assimilation of immigrant cultures in the U.S. and Canadian mainstreams is accepted by scholars. We believe that this applies to English literature, pageantry, commemorations, cricket, and much more, and we hope that this initial foray will encourage others to pursue the numerous other sources of English ethnicity in the United States and Canada and how they were transformed on the western side of the Atlantic" --

English --- British Americans --- Anglo-Americans --- English Americans --- British --- Ethnology --- History. --- Social life and customs. --- Ethnic identity. --- North America --- Great Britain --- Civilization --- British influences.

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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.