Sur y norte de la cultura del nuevo mundo

Claudio Véliz

doi:10.5354/0719-3769.1996.15109

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Claudio Véliz

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Why the huge contrast on our continent between the economic achievements of the North and the stagnation of the South? This essay suggests that the most important cultural constructions of the respective colonial metropolises - the Spanish Catholic Counter-Reformation and the English Industrial Revolution - generated different styles that were perpetuated in the new transplanted societies. Thus, if stability, permanence and continuity have always been valued in the Ibero-American world, in Anglo-Saxon America change, novelty and risk have been legitimized. Counterpoints such as these are reflected in the institutions, laws, political regimes, religiosity, language and customs, and have determined the industrial modernity and economic power of the northern region unlike what has happened in the south.

Keywords:

New World, Culture, Transplanted Societies, Latin America, Anglo-Saxon America

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Claudio Véliz

Ph.D., London School of Economics; profesor de historia y director de The University Professors de la Universidad de Boston; profesor emérito de la Universidad de La Trobe; ex director del Instituto de Estudios Internacionales de la Universidad de Chile. De sus numerosas publicaciones cabe mencionar Historia de la marina mercante de Chile (Santiago, 1961) y The Centralist tradition of Latin America (Princeton, 1980)c

Sur y norte de la cultura del nuevo mundo

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