Amy A. Oliver is Professor of Languages and Foreign Study at the American University.

• History and the Latin American mind; history viewed as an invention of the west; liberalism and the expansion of the west; the universalizing influence of western culture; Russia on the fringe of the west; Spain on the fringe of the west; Europe on the fringe of the west; Latin America on the fringe of the west; puritanism as a component of the American mind; Catholicism and modernism as components of the Latin American mind.

Amy A. Oliver is Professor of Languages and Foreign Study at the American University.

• History and the Latin American mind; history viewed as an invention of the west; liberalism and the expansion of the west; the universalizing influence of western culture; Russia on the fringe of the west; Spain on the fringe of the west; Europe on the fringe of the west; Latin America on the fringe of the west; puritanism as a component of the American mind; Catholicism and modernism as components of the Latin American mind.