North America
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America · northern America · اميركا · شمالي اميركا
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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The continent cited as the area of near-total diffusion of English-style landed property.
The area within which this last form of property is the sole or dominant kind of ownership is now much larger than it was, through its diffusion over all North America, except Mexico, and over all colonies settled for the first time by Englishmen, but our nearly exclusive familiarity with it has led, I think, to our very commonly over-estimating the extent to which it prevails over the world, and …
and I again remind you that we are indebted to the peculiarly absolute English form of ownership for such an achievement as the cultivation of the soil of North America.
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The northern American continent, named as a region of widespread totemism and as a comparative parallel for the Arabs.
It is general among the tribes of Australia and widely spread in northern America and in Panama, where the common totem is «the parrot»;
﴾ Smith's view of the totemism of the Arabs ﴿ Smith holds that the Arabs in their most ancient times traced their descent to fathers among the animals or the plants, which they worshipped or held sacred and by whose names they called themselves, and that their case in marriage and mother-right and the rest was like the case of the savage tribes in Australia and America.