"Compelling, provocative, and learned. This book is a stunning and sophisticated reevaluation of the American empire. Hopkins tells an old story in a truly new

A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its head American Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new gl

A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its head American Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new gl

From Mexico to Vietnam, from Nicaragua to Lebanon, and more recently to Kosovo, East Timor and now Iraq, the United States has intervened in the affairs of othe

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