He was appropriately and admirably objective about that. Cubans became ungrateful, rebellious, dangerous and even today deserve to be walled off and kept away from civilised countries until they have in some way repented and seen the light. But American expansionism has manifested in other forms too, says When we talk about the American ‘empire,’ what are we talking about?
180 ratings — The poet urged the United States to adopt the idea of imperialism, as Britain and other European countries had done. Mark Twain was the most famous. Anyone who’s ever attempted it simply bows down, while taking his hat off, to those who’ve made the effort, because you expose yourself on all fronts and often receive the drubbing you deserve. . 417 ratings — This is where LaFeber built upon Williams’s rather more schematic generalisation to devise an argument that drew attention to the industrialising process in the United States from the 1870s onwards, the growth of towns, the accompanying concentration of people, and the urban unemployment that followed economic downturns.LaFeber took this materialist argument and applied it in considerable detail to the events of the 1880s and 1890s in particular.
published 1995 avg rating 3.99 — There’s a whole industry devoted to proving and disproving his analysis.It’s a really great case of an outstanding book which, as far as I know, never won any major prizes. published 2006 I’ve cited Pérez for two reasons. 3,752 ratings —
Excellent examples could also be drawn from Hawaiʻi, The Philippines, and Puerto Rico, as well as, of course, from Africa and Asia.Nevertheless—and this is the second reason I’ve chosen Pérez—I don’t think anyone has contributed as much he has to any other part of the insular empire. It’s extremely patronising.Are these images reflective of how the Americans feel about Cuba, or do they develop a power of their own?A bit of both.
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The Vietnam War divided the nation and generated unprecedented hostility towards military adventures, which were seen as expressions of imperialism. It was the search for solutions to these domestic problems that led to imperial expansion overseas. What I’ve done on this, I should say, is by no means definitive. You can see immediately that there are huge problems with all these terms, but that’s inherent in the name of the game.
Williams was the chief of the founders of the New Left branch of what’s become known as the Wisconsin school of history. 2,903 ratings — published 1971 avg rating 4.30 — That’s the empire I, too, refer to: the overseas territories that were acquired by the United States after the war with Spain in 1898. Consequently, they needed paternal help and guidance before they earned the right to manage their own affairs.In 1959, the Cuban Revolution signified their rejection of the forms of imperial subordination they had been subjected to. The difficulty comes when you try to put a name to it. So, the precedents for what the Cubans are doing or trying to do are there in US history. For Williams, the story was one of capitalist crises that created acute difficulties at home through falling living standards, limited opportunities, and unemployment. And there are, I’m sure, many weaknesses that I have not yet fully perceived. 14,331 ratings — 6,737 ratings — They were rebellious. Ex-president Cleveland, a Democrat, was one of them. avg rating 4.31 — Here, Raffaele Rossi, Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester, recommends his top macroeconomics textbooks, starting with entry-level books aimed at undergraduates all the way through to the tough tomes you'll need to plough through if you're doing a doctorate and want to work at the frontier of the discipline.We ask experts to recommend the five best books in their subject and explain their selection in an interview.This site has an archive of more than one thousand interviews, or five thousand book recommendations.
“You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit” You could say that it’s an attempt to write a global history for a globalised world.Five Books interviews are expensive to produce. 5,816 ratings — Achebe posits that the novel may be read as racist and as a colonialist parable. Cubans became inferior. avg rating 4.12 —
The experience in Myanmar influenced both his writing and his world view. His difficulty was that he seems to have accepted—understandably, because it was in the air of the time—the ideas of people like George Kennan, who believed that the United States had a civilising mission. Everyone can agree on that. No one else has undertaken the task since 1962.
An ex-colonial state that advertised anti-imperial values found it difficult to accept that it had become a colonial power itself. avg rating 3.86 — Rather, it allows readers to look at known events from a fresh perspective, from that of the people – from the humblest to the most powerful – who experienced first-hand, what was one of the darkest episodes in American history.“Brilliant .
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The kind of trends that we know as staples of modern European history were also operating in the United States and at much the same time.For example, when the United States acquired its formal empire in 1898, it did so at the height of ‘new imperialism’ in the late 19th century, when Britain, France and others were expanding or creating their own empires. It would greatly assist the formulation of US policy if someone would offer him a one-page summary of Pérez’s book.One image Pérez picks up on that I find striking is of a child learning to ride a bicycle. 10. (2)United States military action was used to protect American interests. 4,507 ratings —