Americans in a Changing World

Williams, William Appleman

Harper

This critical approach emphasizes that history should do more than shed light on why a policy is inadequate or wrong - that it should also breed ideas about how to move from the past to the future. Williams's ideas are so far out of touch with the reality of most people that his work was often dismissed out of hand. The notion, for example, that women could either have marketplace equality or a satisfying home life, makes this book extraordinarily outdated but still an interesting study in the outdated ideas it contains.

Americans in a Changing World: A History of the United States in the Twentieth Century

Harper&Row

An essay on the causes and character of America's present predicament along with a few thoughts about an alternative.

Empire as a Way of Life: An Essay on the Causes and Character of America's Present Predicament Along With a Few Thoughts About an Alternative

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Oxford University Press

A revisionist historian probes the roots and surveys the development of American imperialism and territorial expansion, calling for a change in attitude and world view

History

Americas

very good condition excellent book

American-Russian Relations, 1781-1947

Rinehart & Company

One of the first modern historians to integrate economic realities into the study of American foreign policy, William Appleman Williams has been a diplomatic historian of major influence since the first publication of The Tragedy of American Diplomacy. In this pioneering book, "the man who has really put the counter-tradition together in its modern form" (Saturday Review) examines the profound contradictions between America's ideals and its uses of its vast power, from the Open Door Notes of 1898 to the Bay of Pigs and the Vietnam War.

The Tragedy of American Diplomacy

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

The Contours Of American History

"A very good book indeed.... It is quietly reasoned, beautifully ordered, and spirited as hell.... [It] is not a book for children, nostalgic or otherwise."―Loren Baritz, The Nation 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. 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.

The Contours of American History

W.W.Norton&Company

“A brilliant book on foreign affairs.”―Adolf A. Berle Jr., New York Times Book Review This incisive interpretation of American foreign policy ranks as a classic in American thought. First published in 1959, the book offered an analysis of the wellsprings of American foreign policy that shed light on the tensions of the Cold War and the deeper impulses leading to the American intervention in Vietnam. William Appleman Williams brilliantly explores the ways in which ideology and political economy intertwined over time to propel American expansion and empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The powerful relevance of Williams’s interpretation to world politics has only been strengthened by recent events in Central Asia and the Persian Gulf. Williams allows us to see that the interests and beliefs that once sent American troops into Texas and California, or Latin America and East Asia, also propelled American forces into Iraq.

History as a way of learning;: Articles, excerpts, and essays

New Viewpoints

“An unblinkered look at our imperial past . . . a perceptive work by one of our most perceptive historians.”—Studs Terkel
A work of remarkable prescience, Empire As A Way of Life is influential historian William Appleman Williams’s groundbreaking work highlighting imperialism—“empire as a way of life”—as the dominant theme in American history. Analyzing U.S. history from its revolutionary origins to the dawn of the Reagan era, Williams shows how America has always been addicted to empire in its foreign and domestic ideology. Detailing the imperial actions and beliefs of revered figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, this book is the most in-depth historical study of the American obsession with empire, and is essential to understanding the origins of our current foreign and domestic undertakings.
Back in print for the first time in twenty-five years, this new edition features an introduction by Andrew Bacevich, author of The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War and American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy.

Empire As A Way of Life: An Essay on the Causes and Character of America's Present Predicament Along with a Few Thoughts about an Alternative

Ig Publishing

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Americans in a Changing World

Americans in a Changing World: A History of the United States in the Twentieth Century

Empire as a Way of Life: An Essay on the Causes and Character of America's Present Predicament Along With a Few Thoughts About an Alternative

Empire as a Way of Life: An Essay on the Causes and Character of America's Present Predicament Along With a Few Thoughts About an Alternative

American-Russian Relations, 1781-1947

The Tragedy of American Diplomacy

The Contours of American History

The Tragedy of American Diplomacy

History as a way of learning;: Articles, excerpts, and essays

Empire As A Way of Life: An Essay on the Causes and Character of America's Present Predicament Along with a Few Thoughts about an Alternative