How Empire Shaped Us
Author | : Antoinette M. Burton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9781474223010 |
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Author | : Antoinette M. Burton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9781474223010 |
Author | : Krishan Kumar |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 597 |
Release | : 2019-08-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691192804 |
"In this extraordinary volume, Krishan Kumar provides us with a brilliant tour of some of history's most important empires, demonstrating the critical importance of imperial ideas and ideologies for understanding their modalities of rule and the conflicts that beset them. In doing so, he interrogates the contested terrain between nationalism and empire and the legacies that empires leave behind."--Mark R. Beissinger, Princeton University "This is an excellent book with original insights into the history of empires and the discourses and rhetoric of their rulers and defenders. Kumar's writing is lively and free of jargon, and his research is prodigious. He manages to bring clarity and perspective to a complex subject."--Ronald Grigor Suny, author of "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide "A masterly piece of work."--Anthony Pagden, author of The Burdens of Empire: 1539 to the Present
Author | : Richard H. Immerman |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691156077 |
How could the United States, a nation founded on the principles of liberty and equality, have produced Abu Ghraib, torture memos, Plamegate, and warrantless wiretaps? Did America set out to become an empire? And if so, how has it reconciled its imperialism--and in some cases, its crimes--with the idea of liberty so forcefully expressed in the Declaration of Independence? Empire for Liberty tells the story of men who used the rhetoric of liberty to further their imperial ambitions, and reveals that the quest for empire has guided the nation's architects from the very beginning--and continues to do so today.
Author | : Antoinette Burton |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2016-01-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1474222994 |
Few historical subjects have generated such intense and sustained interest in recent decades as Britain's imperial past. What accounts for this preoccupation? Why has it gained such purchase on the historical imagination? How has it endured even as its subject slips further into the past? In seeking to answer these questions, the proposed volume brings together some of the leading figures in the field, historians of different generations, different nationalities, different methodological and theoretical perspectives and different ideological persuasions. Each addresses the relationship between their personal development as historians of empire and the larger forces and events that helped to shape their careers. The result is a book that investigates the connections between the past and the present, the private and the public, the professional practices of historians and the political environments within which they take shape. This intellectual genealogy of the recent historiography of empire will be of great value to anyone studying or researching in the field of imperial history.
Author | : Neil Smith |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2004-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520243382 |
Annotation American Empire challenges our deepest assumptions about the rise of American globalism in the twentieth century and puts geography back into the History of what is called the American Century.
Author | : David Reynolds |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 2009-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465020054 |
"The best one-volume history of the United States ever written" (Joseph J. Ellis) It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great "empire of liberty." This paradoxical phrase may be the key to the American saga: How could the anti-empire of 1776 became the world's greatest superpower? And how did the country that offered unmatched liberty nevertheless found its prosperity on slavery and the dispossession of Native Americans? In this new single-volume history spanning the entire course of US history—from 1776 through the election of Barack Obama—prize-winning historian David Reynolds explains how tensions between empire and liberty have often been resolved by faith—both the evangelical Protestantism that has energized American politics for centuries and the larger faith in American righteousness that has driven the country's expansion. Written with verve and insight, Empire of Liberty brilliantly depicts America in all of its many contradictions.
Author | : Walter Nugent |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2009-06-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400078180 |
Since its founding, the United States' declared principles of liberty and democracy have often clashed with aggressive policies of imperial expansion. In this sweeping narrative history, acclaimed scholar Walter Nugent explores this fundamental American contradiction by recounting the story of American land acquisition since 1782 and shows how this steady addition of territory instilled in the American people a habit of empire-building. From America's early expansions into Transappalachia and the Louisiana Purchase through later additions of Alaska and island protectorates in the Caribbean and Pacific, Nugent demonstrates that the history of American empire is a tale of shifting motives, as the early desire to annex land for a growing population gave way to securing strategic outposts for America's global economic and military interests. Thorough, enlightening, and well-sourced, this book explains the deep roots of American imperialism as no other has done.
Author | : Stephen Burman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1134037546 |
Ch. 1. Energy -- chapter 2. Trade -- chapter 3. Capital -- chapter 4. People -- chapter 5. Military -- chapter 6. Security -- chapter 7. Soft power -- chapter 8. Ideas -- chapter 9. The future.
Author | : Daniel Immerwahr |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2019-02-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0374715122 |
Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune A Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff Pick A pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an “empire,” exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories—the islands, atolls, and archipelagos—this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light. We travel to the Guano Islands, where prospectors collected one of the nineteenth century’s most valuable commodities, and the Philippines, site of the most destructive event on U.S. soil. In Puerto Rico, Immerwahr shows how U.S. doctors conducted grisly experiments they would never have conducted on the mainland and charts the emergence of independence fighters who would shoot up the U.S. Congress. In the years after World War II, Immerwahr notes, the United States moved away from colonialism. Instead, it put innovations in electronics, transportation, and culture to use, devising a new sort of influence that did not require the control of colonies. Rich with absorbing vignettes, full of surprises, and driven by an original conception of what empire and globalization mean today, How to Hide an Empire is a major and compulsively readable work of history.
Author | : A. G. Hopkins |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 1002 |
Release | : 2019-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691196877 |
"Compelling, provocative, and learned. This book is a stunning and sophisticated reevaluation of the American empire. Hopkins tells an old story in a truly new way--American history will never be the same again."--Jeremi Suri, author of The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office.Office.