The Contours of American History the Contours of American History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393305616)

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.

Author: William Appleman Williams
ISBN-10: 0393305619
ISBN-13: 9780393305616
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 02/17/1989
Pages: 520
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 7.31h x 4.90w x 1.10d