Volume 51, Number 3 · February 26, 2004
A Pan-American Flight
By J.H. Elliott
The Americas: A Hemispheric History
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Modern Library, 235 pp., $19.95
Do the Americas have a common history? The question seems first to have been posed in these words in 1941. It was chosen as the title for the English translation, published by the Pan American Union, of an article that originally appeared in Spanish under the title of 'Hegel and Modern Pan-Americanism.' Its author was the distinguished Mexican philosophical historian Edmundo O'Gorman, best known in the English-speaking world for his book The Invention of America, which provocatively argued that America was not 'discovered' by Columbus but was a European 'invention' of the sixteenth century.[1]
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