Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its PredecessorsHarvard University Press, 2006. ápr. 24. - 384 oldal Contemporary America, with its unparalleled armaments and ambition, seems to many commentators a new empire. Others angrily reject the designation. What stakes would being an empire have for our identity at home and our role abroad? |
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... costs . In this investigation I try to sort out two separate , if overlapping , inquiries . Critics and cheerleaders alike have tended to focus on having an empire , not being one . Russia , the historian Geoffrey Hosking has noted ...
... costs of empire . They did so as well at the be- ginning of the twentieth century , when the United States defeated Spain and acquired Caribbean and Pacific possessions . Many leaders in American public life actively opposed the ...
... cost in terms of vio- lence and its own institutional corruption ? Are atrocities just the ex- ception or an almost inevitable consequence of imperial behavior ? Like Calvino's emperor , the American founders , and then Lincoln , Wilson ...
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