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The New World of the Gothic Fox

Culture and Economy in English and Spanish America
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Claudio Veliz 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, Veliz provides an original and lively approach to understanding the development of English and Spanish America over the past 500 years. According to Veliz, 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. Veliz writes with erudition and wit, using a multitude of sources - historians and classical sociologists, Greek philosophers, today's newspape

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Claudio Veliz is University Professor and Professor of History at Boston University.
Release date Australia
June 24th, 1994
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  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Undergraduate
Pages
272
Dimensions
156x235x25
ISBN-13
9780520083165
Product ID
7577686

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