Description Contemporary America, with its unparalleled armaments and ambition, seems to many commentators a new empire.
It confirms that the issue of empire must be a concern of every citizen..
With learning, dispassion, and clarity, Among Empires offers bold comparisons and an original account of American power. global ascendancy.
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It is to confront lofty national aspirations with the realities of the violence that often attends imperial politics and thus to question both the costs and the opportunities of the current U.
To inquire about empire is to ask what the United States has become as a result of its wealth, inventiveness, and ambitions. power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, carefully analyzing its economic and strategic sources and the nation\'s relationship to Predecessors and rivals.
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He then explores the exercise of U.
Marshaling a remarkable array of evidence--from Roman, Ottoman, Moghul, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and British experience--Maier outlines the essentials of empire throughout history.
Maier uses comparative history to test the relevance of a concept often invoked but not always understood. foreign policy and the recent spate of pro- and anti-empire polemics, Charles S.
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Eschewing the standard focus on current U.
This elegantly written book examines the structure and impact of these mega-states and asks whether the United States shares their traits and behavior.
What stakes would being an empire have for our identity at home and our role abroad?A preeminent American historian addresses these issues in light of the history of empires since antiquity.
Others angrily reject the designation.
Description Contemporary America, with its unparalleled armaments and ambition, seems to many commentators a new empire
