America America: A New History of the New World

This is how the United States took control of America in name and in deed This was not the first time that South America tried to educate its wealthy, powerful neighbor, that is, the United States. There is a long history of this influence, which is documented by history professor at Yale University, Greg Grandin, through his recently published book of more than 700 pages from Penguin House entitled “America’s America: A New History of the New World”, and I hope that it is a correct attempt to match this title, as I use The English words AMERICA and Spanish AMÉRICA have two common translations in Arabic, i.e. America and America. During the first half of the 18th century, most Westerners referred to the New World as America. Then, in the 1960s, in reaction to the British Crown’s efforts to tighten control over its American possessions, “nationals began... British Dissidents use the word 'America' in two senses: by one they mean the New World and by the second they mean their small slice of this world, that is, the narrow strip of land between the Allegheny Mountains and the sea. George Washington was one of the first to usurp the name America for the United States, as he said in his farewell speech in 1796 that “American is a name that belongs to you.” Indeed, the obsession with the name reached such a point that in 1858, President James Buchanan sent a fleet of 19 battleships, 2,500 soldiers, and 200 cannons to demand that the Paraguayan government change the words “United States of North America” to “United States of America” in the text of a trade agreement. The obsession continued until Donald Trump, as Jennifer Salai began her review of the book \["New York Times" - May 12, 2025\] by talking about last January 20, when Trump signed an executive order naming the Gulf of Mexico America's Gulf, saying that "the region formerly known as America's Gulf has long been an integral part of our emerging nation, and its natural resources and wildlife remain a central part of the American economy." "In 1777, the articles of the Constitution called the new country the United States of America, although it continued to refer to it only as 'America'. This linguistic confusion between the entirety of the new world and one of its parts implied ambition, as many in the United States at that time expected that the new nation would include the entire hemisphere, or that it would at least reach the Pacific Ocean." Source