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The clash of American civilizations

From H-Net, a review of Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830 by J. H. Elliott. I am America (And So?) Five hundred years ago, our continent was given a name — we still don’t know what it means. A review of Old World, New World: The Story of Britain and America by Kathleen Burk. A review of What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe (and an interview). From Americana, Virginia Dominguez (Illinois): Suspicion, Critique, and Pursuit: How Do U.S. Cultural Anthropology, U.S. Cultural Studies, and U.S. American Studies View One Another?; what's performance got to do with it? An interview with Jane Desmond about Performance Studies, Cultural Studies and American Studies; Monika Fodor (Pecs): My Slice of Americana: Ethno-Cultural Identities in the Making; Judit Agnes Kadar (Eszterhazy): Learning to Listen: Changing Perspectives in the Study of Cultural Diversity in North America; and Eva Eszter Szabo (Eotvos Lorand): The Clash of American Civilizations: The U.S. and the Latino Peril. From Americas Quarterly, U.S. Admiral Jim Stavridis on how We're All in This Together; former Presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Ricardo Lagos on Democracy's Growing Pains; and an interview with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on why his government is getting serious about Latin America. A look at how the U.S. and Canada's "marriage" is on the rocks. An interview with Michael Byers, author of Intent for a Nation: What Is Canada For? Will Kymlicka reviews Unlikely Utopia: The Surprising Triumph of Canadian Pluralism by Michael Adams.