Editing Americentrism (section)

== History ==
Scholarship of Americentrism traces the ideological system's origins, historically, to the late 1700s following the established [[American Revolution|independence of the United States]]. Americentrism is presented as a shift from [[Eurocentrism]] that idolizes the newly founded United States' ideals of freedom and democracy.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Peet |first=Richard |date=2005-11-05 |title=From Eurocentrism to Americentrism |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0066-4812.2005.00542.x |journal=Antipode |language=en |volume=37 |issue=5 |pages=936–943 |doi=10.1111/j.0066-4812.2005.00542.x |bibcode=2005Antip..37..936P |issn=0066-4812 |via=DOI Foundation|url-access=subscription }}</ref> 

Such scholarship itself was initially built on Jim Blaut's 1980s scholarship of Eurocentrism by Geographer [[Richard Peet]] whom coined the term in his 2005 journal, ''From Eurocentrism to Americanism''. <ref name=":0" />