The Contours of American History

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."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 02/17/1989
ISBN: 9780393305616
Pages: 520
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 7.31h x 4.90w x 1.10d