Amerika

Italiensk: Den nye verden.
Denne består, geografisk set, af kontinenterne: Nord- og Sydamerika, samt Grønland. Amerika har kystlinjer til Atlanterhavet, Ishavet og Stillehavet.
Stednavnet er også brugt i ældre danske publikationer som synonym for USA.
Demografi: Oprindelige folk / indigenous peoples.

Italian: The New World.
This is, geographically speaking, the continents: North and South America, and Greenland. America have coastlines to the Atlantic, the Arctic and the Pacific.
The place name is also used in older Danish publications as a synonym for the United States.

Litteratur

Geografihistoriske primærkilder og fremstillinger:
The Norse Discoverers of America, the Wineland Sagas. / Translated & discussed by G. M. Gathorne-Hardy.
- Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1921. - 322 s.
- http://archive.org/details/norsediscoverers00gathrich
A collection of rare Americana, including the remainder of the notable library of James Carson Brevoort, of Brooklyn, N.Y. : comprising the earliest books in various languages relating to the discovery, exploration and history of America, a collection of voyages and travels to America, and many relating to the Arctic regions; works of the early cosmo-graphers, including scarce editions of Ptolemæus, Pomponius Mela, Grymphæus, Schoner, Behaim, Munster, Ortelius, Bordone, Apianus and others; books about New France, Canada, New Netherland, New York, Mexico, Peru, Brazil, etc., original unpublished manuscripts relating chiefly to South America, one by DeLaet, remarkable assortment of atlases and maps, covering all sections of America at various epochs; and in general works of the following character; revolutionary, colonial, local and state histories, genealogies, scarce reprints; proceedings of societies, Indians and bibliographies : to be sold at auction Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, February 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th, 1890, at 2.30 P.M. by Bangs & Co., 738 & 741 Broadway, New York (1890) - 202 s.
Bibliotheca Americana : or, A chronological catalogue of the most curious and interesting books, pamphlets, state papers, etc. upon the subject of North and South America, from the earliest period to the present, in print and manuscript; for which research has been made in the British musæum, and the most celebrated public and private libraries, reviews, catalogues, etc. With an introductiory discourse on the present state of literarure in those countries (1789) / Variously attributed to Arthur Homer (whose projected Bibliotheca americana, announced in 1799, was never published); to a "Mr. Reid, American, resident in London"; to J. Debrett, the publisher of the work; and to Alexander Dairymple. ESTC attributes to Leman Thomas Rede.
- http://www.archive.org/details/bibliothecaameri00home
Fiske, John: The Discovery of America: with some account of ancient America and the Spanish conquest , 1900.
- http://www.archive.org/details/discoveryofameri005261mbp
Klee, Frederik:: Amerika især i den nyeste Tid: en historisk-statistisk Haandbog (1839). - 494 s.
- http://archive.org/details/amerikaisridenn00kleegoog
Blome, Richard: The present state of His Majesties isles and territories in America : viz, Jamaica, Barbadoes, S. Christophers, Mevis, Antego, S. Vincent, Dominica, New Jersey, Pensilvanie, Monserat, Anguilla, Bermudas, Carolina, Virginia, New-England, Tobago, New-Found-Land, Mary-Land, New-York : with new maps of every place, together with astronomical tables ... and how to make sun-dials fitting for all those places (1687).
- http://www.archive.org/details/cihm_36901

Se også: Caribien ; Centralamerika ; Dixieland ; Latinamerika ; Mellemamerika ; Messoamerika ; monroedoktrinen ; Panamerika ; Riotraktaten.

Se også: Amnesty Internationals årsrapport 2010.
http://thereport.amnesty.org/en/regions/americas#americas_country_en

Se også: Organization of Ibero-American States ; Pan American Union nu Organiastionen af Amerikanske Stater.

American constitutions; a compilation of the political constitutions of the independent nations of the New world, with short historical notes and various appendixes.I-II. International Bureau of the American Republics. (1906-1907).
http://www.archive.org/details/americanconstitu01inteilli
Vol. I, pt. 1. Federal unions: The United States of America; the United Mexican States; the Argentine nation; the United States of Brazil; the United States of Venezuela.--pt. 2. The republics of Central America: Guatemala; Salvador; Nicaragua; Costa Rica; Honduras; Panama. 1906 Vol. II, pt. 3. The republics of the Caribbean Sea: The Dominican Republic; the republic of Haiti; the republic of Cuba; Treaty of relations between the United States of America and the republic of Cuba.--pt. 4. The republics of South America: Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Paraguay, Bolivia. 1907