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By William Williams,Greg Grandin

"A excellent e-book indeed.... it's quietly reasoned, fantastically ordered, and lively as hell.... [It] isn't a publication for kids, nostalgic or otherwise."—Loren Baritz, The Nation

William Appleman Williams used to be the yank historical past profession’s maximum critic folks imperialism. The Contours of yankee History, first released in 1961, reached again into British heritage to argue that the connection among liberalism and empire was once in impression a grand compromise, with enlargement in another country containing category and race tensions at home.

Coming because it did ahead of the political explosions of the Nineteen Sixties, Williams’s message used to be a deeply heretical one, and but the trendy Library eventually selected Contours as the most effective a hundred nonfiction books of the twentieth Century. This 50th anniversary version will introduce this magisterial paintings to a brand new readership, with a brand new creation by means of Greg Grandin, certainly one of today’s best historians people international policy.

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