The Contours Of American History
A History, North American Hi..., Nonfiction book. This book fills in a lot of good information about the...
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. This fiftieth anniversary edition will introduce this magisterial work to a new readership, with a new introduction by...
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Great history book, some narrative elements are nice as you'd hope to find in a casual history book, but I was happy to be filled in on a lot of continuities in political philosophy throughout America's longish history. Pretty academic content sometimes but nice to read. This book fills in a lot of good information about the history of Liberalism, the American ideology derived from Seventeenth Century Britain. For example, it clarifies very helpfully the debt John Locke (America's favourite philosopher) owes to his patron, Shaftesbury, and the fundamentally important difference between Shaftesbury's... If you want history from an anti-individualist slant this is the book for you. While criticizing Locke and Smith for their "laissez-faire" outlook he praises the limits they place on the economy. He is basically a mercantilist at heart and this comes through most clearly when he praises Keynes and the "Progressive Movement" for their...
