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American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers

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Description for American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers Hardcover. Magisterial account of the ideas and the figures who have forged the American Empire Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPH; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 151 x 29. Weight in Grams: 460.
Since the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been close to the heart of the United States. How these urges interact with the way the country understands itself, and the nature of the divergent interests at work in the unfolding of American foreign policy, is a subject much debated and still obscure. In a fresh look at the topic, Anderson charts the intertwined historical development of America's imperial reach and its role as the general guarantor of capital.

The internal tensions that have arisen are traced from the closing stages of the Second World War through the ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Verso
Condition
New
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781686676
SKU
V9781781686676
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About Perry Anderson
Perry Anderson is the author of, among other books, Spectrum, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Considerations on Western Marxism, English Questions, The Origins of Postmodernity, The New Old World and The Indian Ideology. He teaches history at UCLA and is on the editorial board of New Left Review.

Reviews for American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers
Like everything Anderson writes, American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers deserves careful reading. He's one of the world's great historians, unrivalled in his ability to master and synthesize vast historical literatures (often drawing on many languages).
Jeet Heer
The New Republic
The most interesting implication of Anderson's argument is that the long catalog of US foreign policy ... Read more

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