Richard Seymour

American Insurgents (eBook, ePUB)

A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism

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Produktbeschreibung

"Seymour's obsessively researched, impressive first book holds its place as the most authoritative historical analysis of its kind."Resurgence

All empires spin self-serving myths, and in the United States 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 which gives the lie to this mythology. Richard Seymour examines this complex relationship from the Revolution to the present-day.

Richard Seymour is a socialist writer and runs the blog Lenin's Tomb. He is the author of The Liberal Defense of Murder. His articles have appeared in the Guardian and New Statesman.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781608461622
• Artikelnr.: 49601544

Autorenporträt

Richard Seymour is a socialist writer and columnist and runs the blog Lenin's Tomb. He is the author of The Liberal Defense of Murder (Verso, 2008), and The Meaning of David Cameron (Zero Books, 2010). He has contributed to Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq and the Left , (NYU Press, 2008) and The Ashgate Research Companion to Political Violence (Ashgate, forthcoming). His articles have appeared in The Guardian, The New Statesman, Radical Philosophy and Historical Materialism. Originally from Northern Ireland, he now resides in London, where he is studying for a PhD at the London School of Economics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Americans and empire - a love-hate relationship? What is imperialism? What remains of the legacy of anti-imperialism from Vietnam to Nicaragua? 1) Empire of liberty: from the revolution to the Mexican war. 2) Winning the West: from civil war to the closing of the frontier. 3) Cuba Libre: the colonial thrust of 1898
and the emergence of the Anti-Imperialist League (Charles Beard
Twain et al). 4) Wilsonianism and its Discontents: how the Anti-Imperialist League fought Wilson over Haiti; the left opposition to WWI and the first pangs of 'Cold War'. 5) Bolshevism and anti-imperialism: American communism
Trotskyists
the Abraham Lincoln brigades
and WWII. 6) Cold War and decolonisation: communism
the African American left
resisting the Cold War consensus
etc. 7) Vietnam and after: how the civil rights movement fed into the antiwar movement
first signs of sympathy with Palestine
explicit anti-imperialism
William Appleman Williams
Gabriel Kolko
Noam Chomsky
etc. Solidarity movements in Nicaragua
Haiti and elsewhere. 8) The fall of the Berlin wall
20 years hence. Solidarity movements
pro-Palestine activism
GI resistance
etc.