American Insurgents: A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism

All empires spin self-serving myths, and in the US the most potent of these is that America is a force for democracy around the world. Yet there is a tradition of American anti-imperialism that exposes this misleading mythology. American Insurgents is a surprising, revelatory history of anti-imperialism in the United States since the American Revolution. It charts the movements against empire from the Indian Wars and the expansionism of the slave South to the Anti-Imperialist League of Mark Twain and Jane Addams. Seymour crafts a lively and transparent explanation of why some of these movements succeeded and others failed. The result is a vital perspective for those organizing antiwar resistance today.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 06/12/2012
ISBN: 9781608461417
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 7.83h x 5.29w x 0.79d