America in the shadow of empires /
America is in trouble at home. Difficulties abound. Unemployment and poverty for many, financial pressure for most, opulence for just a privileged few. Yet America is also active abroad, in a role that is equally troubling and difficult. The book explores the relationship between problems at home an...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART I: THE PROBLEM
- 1. The Nature of Our Contemporary Condition
- 2. The Question of Empire
- PART II: THE PARALLELS
- 3. The Glory that was Rome
- 4. Spain: The Rise and Fall of a Dynastic Empire
- 5. The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
- 6. Russian Empires Old and New
- 7. Lessons of Empire
- PART III: THE RECKONING
- 8. A New Rome on the Potomac?
- 9. Towards a Better America
- Notes.