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The Contours of American History (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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The Contours of American History (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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William Appleman Williams was one of America's greatest critics of
US imperialism. The 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. Williams was not the first historian to
identify the United States as an imperial power, yet he was unique
in linking domestic disquiet to the long history of American
expansion, which he traced back to England's Glorious Revolution.
Reaching deep into thirteenth century British history to identify
the motor contradictions of what eventually would become known as
liberalism, Williams presents a wholly original interpretation of
US history; one where the story of the United States is the story
of capitalism. 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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