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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 327.73
EAN: 9780977197231
ISBN: 0977197239
Label: Ig Publishing
Manufacturer: Ig Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 225
Publication Date: September 01, 2006
Publisher: Ig Publishing
Sales Rank: 130729
Studio: Ig Publishing
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“An unblinkered look at our imperial past . . . a perceptive work by one of our most perceptive historians.”—Studs Terkel
A work of remarkable prescience, Empire As A Way of Life is influential historian William Appleman Williams’s groundbreaking work highlighting imperialism—“empire as a way of life”—as the dominant theme in American history. Analyzing U.S. history from its revolutionary origins to the dawn of the Reagan era, Williams shows how America has always been addicted to empire in its foreign and domestic ideology. Detailing the imperial actions and beliefs of revered figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, this book is the most in-depth historical study of the American obsession with empire, and is essential to understanding the origins of our current foreign and domestic undertakings.
Back in print for the first time in twenty-five years, this new edition features an introduction by Andrew Bacevich, author of The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War and American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy.
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I bought this book because Gore Vidal cited William Appleman Williams as America's greatest Historian. This book is too general a read to judge Mr. Williams as an historian. But from what I have read in this book, I wouldn't use Mr. Williams as my final historical source. I realize that this work is not meant to be a history book but more of an essay by an historian. Consequently this work is filled with opinions. Many of these opinions do not line up with most of my readings of other substantial ... Read More
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The two brief reviews of Empire as a Way of Life need brief comment themselves. First, Williams was not a Marxist though he certainly admired the contributions of Karl Marx to our understanding of how the modern world came into being. He was also curious about how it came to pass that Marx fell into intellectual oblivion.
Second, Williams meant Empire as a Way of Life to be an essay to be read by the widest possible audience and certainly not one to be read after his much more detailed, ... Read More
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Though dead for sixteen years, it is remarkable how much of a visionary William Appleman Williams truly was. He opens this book with a description of how America's political system has transformed our original ideology into an empire that is ever thirsting for new markets and how we've become more or less a slave to our own creation. Since so few people participate in our political system, our system has devolved into empire, though it remains Williams' hope that somehow this will change. This book is ... Read More
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U.S. foreign policy is as bad as British foreign policy with Bush and Blair skipping around the world hand-in-hand kicking sand in everyone's faces, along with a few bombs, missiles and so forth. How did we come to this?
William Appleman Williams explained it well twenty-five years ago when he wrote this essay. Imperialism has always been our nation's "raison d'etre" despite all the high-sounding libertarian rhetoric to the contrary. In Williams's Marxist view of elite behavior, elites have ... Read More
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