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Global America: Imposing Liberalism on a Recalcitrant World » Read Now
by Bob Catley, David Mosler. 226 pgs.

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The United States is the most powerful political agency in the world, supported by the strongest economy, largest educated population, and the most lethal military machine. But it supports the ideals of liberalism and is using its power to try to create a liberal world order. No other state can...
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The United States is the most powerful political agency in the world, supported by the strongest economy, largest educated population, and the most lethal military machine. But it supports the ideals of liberalism and is using its power to try to create a liberal world order. No other state can presently resist this process. Nonetheless, the very libertarian nature of the emerging order--with powerful independent corporations and particularistic nationalisms and cultures--may be beyond the capacity of any single state to manage--even the United States.
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Readings in U.S. Imperialism » Read Now
by K. T. Fann, Donald C. Hodges. 403 pgs.

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...Peace Through Resistance to American Imperialism Bertrand Russell xi...7. The Vicious Circle of American Imperialism William A. Williams...Resources: The Dynamics of...
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Cultures of United States Imperialism » Read Now
by Amy Kaplan, Donald E. Pease. 672 pgs.

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...cold war, the disavowal of American imperialism persists in the opposition...in historical studies of American imperialism, the role of empire has been...power. " The...
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U.S. Imperialism in the 1990s, in Monthly Review » Read Now
by Paul M. Sweezy. 17 pgs.

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...U.S. Imperialism in the 1990s. by Paul...worlds leader. Henry Luces "American Century" appeared to be...the shape of the new U.S. imperialism was practically...
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Destroying World Order: U.S. Imperialism in the Middle East before and after September 11 » Read Now
by Francis A. Boyle. 190 pgs.

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Francis A. Boyle discusses U.S. assistance to Iraq during and its conduct of the 1990 Gulf War, the Afghanistan war and the current Iraq war in relation to violations of the laws of neutrality, humanitarian law, the laws of war and the U.S. Constitution. The concluding chapter includes draft...
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Francis A. Boyle discusses U.S. assistance to Iraq during and its conduct of the 1990 Gulf War, the Afghanistan war and the current Iraq war in relation to violations of the laws of neutrality, humanitarian law, the laws of war and the U.S. Constitution. The concluding chapter includes draft articles for the impeachment of President George W. Bush.
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Did You Say 'American Imperialism'?: Power, Weakness, and Choices in the Middle East, in National Review » Read Now
by Bernard Lewis. 5 pgs.

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...Did You Say American Imperialism? : Power, Weakness, and Choices...utterances, the important point about American imperialism is that it is in decline, and...Middle Eastern...
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Supremacy by Stealth, in The Atlantic Monthly » Read Now
by Robert D. Kaplan. 15 pgs.

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...need more hyphenated Americans and language specialists...THINK PAGAN As noted, imperialism in antiquity was in...pagan-Roman model of imperialism contrasts sharply...
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The Common Currents of Imperialism, in The Humanist » Read Now
by Gregory Shafer. 4 pgs.

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...President McKinley Imperialism is a pesky thing...others castigated American icons like President...first place. As an American student asked...This lesson of imperialism...
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United States Imperialism, Nuclear Threats, and the Voices of the Hibakusha, in Peace and Conflict » Read Now
by Eric Herring. 4 pgs.

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...Erlbaum Associates, Inc. United States Imperialism, Nuclear Threats, and the Voices of the...Publishers. Published in cooperation with American Friends Service Committee...
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Creating an American Lake: United States Imperialism and Strategic Security in the Pacific Basin, 1945-1947 » Read Now
by Hal M. Friedman. 221 pgs.

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Many historians of U.S. foreign relations think of the post-World War II period as a time when the United States, as an anti-colonial power, advocated collective security through the United Nations and denounced territorial aggrandizement. Yet between 1945 and 1947, the United States violated its...
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Many historians of U.S. foreign relations think of the post-World War II period as a time when the United States, as an anti-colonial power, advocated collective security through the United Nations and denounced territorial aggrandizement. Yet between 1945 and 1947, the United States violated its wartime rhetoric and instead sought an imperial solution to its postwar security problems in East Asia by acquiring unilateral control of the western Pacific Islands and dominating influence throughout the entire Pacific Basin. This detailed study examines American foreign policy toward the Pacific Basin from the beginning of the Truman Administration to the implementation of Containment in the summer and fall of 1947. As a case study of the Truman Administration's Early Cold War efforts, it explores pre-Containment policy in light of U.S. security concerns vis-a-vis the Pearl Harbor Syndrome.
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Somalia and the Imperial Savage: Continuities in the Rhetoric of War, in Western Journal of Communication » Read Now
by John R. Butler. 24 pgs.

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...the characteristics of the American imperialism argument, examination of...common to the rhetoric of American imperialism at the turn of the century...Beveridge, illustrate...
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Raising Empires like Children: Race, Nation, and Religious Education, in American Literary History » Read Now
by Karen Sanchez-Eppler. 27 pgs.

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...such troubles. The image of American imperialism in these stories is in many...economic and political forms of American imperialism are interdependent. Depicting...and...
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The United States in Central America, 1860-1911: Episodes of Social Imperialism and Imperial Rivalry in the World System » Read Now
by Thomas D. Schoonover. 256 pgs.

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...colonialism and informal imperialism. Despite their...Caribbean- Central American region. 18...racial and anti-American reaction in Guatemala...specific form of anti-...
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Exporting Democracy? American Women, "Feminist Reforms," and Politics of Imperialism in the U.S. Occupation of Japan, 1945-1952, in Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies » Read Now
by Mire Koikari. 24 pgs.

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...Democracy? American Women, "Feminist...Politics of Imperialism in the U.S...context of U.S. imperialism and Western colonialism, American women occupiers...in European...
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Cultural Imperialism: An American Tradition, in The Humanist » Read Now
by Julia Galeota. 4 pgs.

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...Cultural Imperialism: An American Tradition. by Julia...The motivations behind American cultural imperialism parallel the justifications...Critics of the theory of...
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Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism: From the Revolution to World War II » Read Now
by John Carlos Rowe. 384 pgs.

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John Carlos Rowe, considered one of the most eminent and progressive critics of American literature, has in recent years become instrumental in shaping the path of American studies. His latest book examines literary responses to U.S. imperialism from the late eighteenth century to the 1940s...
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John Carlos Rowe, considered one of the most eminent and progressive critics of American literature, has in recent years become instrumental in shaping the path of American studies. His latest book examines literary responses to U.S. imperialism from the late eighteenth century to the 1940s. Interpreting texts by Charles Brockden Brown, Poe, Melville, John Rollin Ridge, Twain, Henry Adams, Stephen Crane, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Neihardt, Nick Black Elk, and Zora Neale Hurston, Rowe argues that U.S. literature has a long tradition of responding critically or contributing to our imperialist ventures. Following in the critical footsteps of Richard Slotkin and Edward Said, Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism is particularly innovative in taking account of the public and cultural response to imperialism. In this sense it could not be more relevant to what is happening in the scholarship, and should be vital reading for scholars and students of American literature and culture.
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