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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... earlier , the idea of Ameri- can empire is back . Some commentators aspire to empire ; others argue that it is inevitable and urge Americans to face up to its " burdens " ; still others condemn the development outright . Can we have ...
... earlier Rus- sian one . But the United States supposedly just ran the Philippines for a few decades as a colony , oversaw Cuba as a protectorate , and took over a few small islands in the Caribbean and Pacific : otherwise it has ...
... earlier imperial powers sought to acquire enclosed domains , to paint the world map as red or as blue as jealous rivals allowed , the United States has endeav- ored to use its power and influence to keep global space as nonterri- torial ...
... earlier eras , its dangers will periodically ebb and crest — as it did at the end of the nineteenth century and in the 1970s — and even this cruel , implacable , but alas recurrently seductive , dedication to noncombatant killing will ...
... earlier republican body politic now transformed . Even when empire emerges as democracy advances , as in the France of the Third Republic or in Victorian Britain or post - 1945 America , it increasingly cordons off overseas military and ...