American Insurgents

"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 soci