ABSTRACT
Anglo-America, this book argues, is one important part of the West. There exist other parts, most importantly in Europe (in its French and Germanic variants) and in the Americas (in its Hispanic, Caribbean, and other variants). The relationship among these parts of the West is neither parallel, in the form of amicable coexistence, nor hierarchical, in the form of clear subordination. Rather, it is layered. The historical trajectory of this manifold West has no fixed point of destination, as I shall argue at the end of this chapter.
