The Contours of American History the Contours of American History

ISBN-13: 9780393305616 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 520 str.

William Appleman Williams

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William Appleman Williams was one of America s greatest critics of US imperialism. The Contours of American History, first published in 1961, reached back to seventeenth-century British history to argue that the relationship between liberalism and empire was in effect a grand compromise, with expansion abroad containing class and race tensions at home. Coming as it did before the political explosions of the 1960s, Williams s message was a deeply heretical one, and yet the Modern Library ultimately chose Contours as one of the best 100 nonfiction books of the 20th Century."