Detailing the imperial actions and beliefs of such revered figures as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, the author creates an in-depth historical study of the American obsession with empire - a study essential to the understanding of the origins of current domestic and foreign undertakings.
Detailing the imperial actions and beliefs of such revered figures as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, the author creates an in-depth historica...
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."
William Appleman Williams was one of America s greatest critics of US imperialism. The Contours of American History, first published in 1961, reached ...
