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Author : David Brody
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226075341
Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-203) and index.
Author : Victor G. Kiernan
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789609998
The invasion and occupation of Iraq have sparked considerable discussion about the nature of American imperialism, but most of it is focused on the short term. The classical historical approach of this book provides a convincing and compelling analysis of the different phases of American imperialism, which have now led to America becoming a global hegemon without any serious rivals. Victor Kiernan, one of the world's most respected historians, has used his nuanced knowledge of history, literature and politics to trace the evolution of the American Empire: he includes accounts of relations between Indians and white settlers, readings of the work of Melville and Whitman, and an analysis of the way that money and politics became so closely intertwined. Eric Hobsbawm's preface provides an insight into his own thoughts on American imperialism, and a valuable introduction to Victor Kiernan's work. Together, they shed useful light on today's urgent debates about the uses and misuses of seemingly unlimited military power, a lack of respect for international agreements, and the right to 'pre-emptive defense'.
Author : Amy Bartholomew
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745323693
What is the legacy of the war in Iraq? Can democracy and human rights really be imposed "by fire and sword"? This book brings together some of the world's most outstanding theorists in the debate over empire and international law. They provide a uniquely lucid account of the relationship between American imperialism, the use and abuse of "humanitarian intervention", and its legal implications. Empire's Law is ideal for students who want a comprehensive critical introduction to the impact that the doctrine of pre-emptive war has had on our capacity to protect human rights and promote global justice. Leading contributors including Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin, Jurgen Habermas, Ulrich Preuss, Andrew Arato, Samir Amin, Reg Whitaker, Denis Halliday and Hans von Sponeck tackle a broad range of issues. Covering everything from the role of Europe and the UN, to people's tribunals, to broader theoretical accounts of the contradictions of war and human rights, the contributors offer new and innovative ways of examining the problems that we face. It is essential reading for all students who want a systematic framework for understanding the long-term consequences of imperialism.
Author : Daniel Immerwahr
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374715120
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 : Todd Gordon,Jeffery R. Webber
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-07T00:00:00Z
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781552668450
Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction examines the increasing presence of Canadian mining companies in Latin America and the environmental and human rights abuses that have occurred as a result. By following the money, Gordon and Webber illustrate the myriad ways Canadian-based multinational corporations, backed by the Canadian state, have developed extensive economic interests in Latin America over the last two decades at the expense of Latin American people and the environment. Latin American communities affected by Canadian resource extraction are now organized into hundreds of opposition movements, from Mexico to Argentina, and the authors illustrate the strategies used by the Canadian state to silence this resistance and advance corporate interests.
Author : Jessica M. Kim
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469651354
In this compelling narrative of capitalist development and revolutionary response, Jessica M. Kim reexamines the rise of Los Angeles from a small town to a global city against the backdrop of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Gilded Age economics, and American empire. It is a far-reaching transnational history, chronicling how Los Angeles boosters transformed the borderlands through urban and imperial capitalism at the end of the nineteenth century and how the Mexican Revolution redefined those same capitalist networks into the twentieth. Kim draws on archives in the United States and Mexico to argue that financial networks emerging from Los Angeles drove economic transformations in the borderlands, reshaped social relations across wide swaths of territory, and deployed racial hierarchies to advance investment projects across the border. However, the Mexican Revolution, with its implicit critique of imperialism, disrupted the networks of investment and exploitation that had structured the borderlands for sixty years, and reconfigured transnational systems of infrastructure and trade. Kim provides the first history to connect Los Angeles's urban expansionism with more continental and global currents, and what results is a rich account of real and imagined geographies of city, race, and empire.
Author : Louis A. Pérez Jr.
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0807886947
For more than two hundred years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images--Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe fruit, a child learning to ride a bicycle. Louis A. Perez Jr. offers a revealing history of these metaphorical and depictive motifs and discovers the powerful motives behind such characterizations of the island as they have persisted and changed since the early nineteenth century. Drawing on texts and visual images produced by Americans ranging from government officials, policy makers, and journalists to travelers, tourists, poets, and lyricists, Perez argues that these charged and coded images of persuasion and mediation were in service to America's imperial impulses over Cuba.
Author : K. T. Fann,Donald Clark Hodges
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Imperialism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002105745
Author : Arwen P. Mohun
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Belgium
ISBN : 9780226828190
"The work of imperialism requires imperialists. But who were the everyday people who willingly served the traditional European empires? Why did they do things that ranged from thoughtless and amoral to criminal and unforgivable? With unblinking clarity and precision, Arwen Mohun here interrogates the life and actions of her great-grandfather Richard Dorsey Mohun, an American who abetted King Leopold of Belgium's horrific exploitation of the Congo Free State. Mohun details his careless and racist use of power, revealing him as an all-too-unreflective ambassador of American corporate imperialism. She seeks not to excuse Dorsey but to understand how individual desire and imperial lust fueled one another, to catastrophic ends"--
Author : John Carlos Rowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780198030119
Author : Pamela E. Pennock
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469630991
In this first history of Arab American activism in the 1960s, Pamela Pennock brings to the forefront one of the most overlooked minority groups in the history of American social movements. Focusing on the ideas and strategies of key Arab American organizations and examining the emerging alliances between Arab American and other anti-imperialist and antiracist movements, Pennock sheds new light on the role of Arab Americans in the social change of the era. She details how their attempts to mobilize communities in support of Middle Eastern political or humanitarian causes were often met with suspicion by many Americans, including heavy surveillance by the Nixon administration. Cognizant that they would be unable to influence policy by traditional electoral means, Arab Americans, through slow coalition building over the course of decades of activism, brought their central policy concerns and causes into the mainstream of activist consciousness. With the support of new archival and interview evidence, Pennock situates the civil rights struggle of Arab Americans within the story of other political and social change of the 1960s and 1970s. By doing so, she takes a crucial step forward in the study of American social movements of that era.
Author : David Healy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015066039754
Author : Richard Seymour
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781608461417
From Mark Twain to the movement against the war in Vietnam, this is the story of ordinary Americans challenging empire.
Author : Catherine Armstrong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108477093
Details how Americans' perceptions of the institution of slavery changed between the end of the Civil War and the onset of World War I.
Author : Victor Perlo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015003967232
"Reference notes": p. 244-252.