THE CONTOURS OF AMERICAN HISTORY by William Appleman Williams, Greg Grandin ( 9781844677740 )

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THE CONTOURS OF AMERICAN HISTORY

By:

William Appleman Williams, Greg Grandin

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Pub. date:

29 September, 2011

Pages:

554

Description:

50th anniversary edition of a classic history of American imperialism.

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William Appleman Williams was one of America's greatest critics of US imperialism. Contours of American History, first published in 1961, reached back to seventeenth-century British history to argue that the relationship between liberalism and empire was in effect a grand compromise, with expansion abroad containing class and race tensions at home. Coming as it did before the political explosions of the 1960s, Williams's message was a deeply heretical one, and yet the Modern Library ultimately chose Contours as one of the best 100 nonfiction books of the 20th Century. This fiftieth anniversary edition will introduce this magisterial work to a new readership, with a new introduction by Greg Grandin, one of today's leading historians of US foreign policy.

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