Empire and Superempire: Britain, America and the World
by Bernard Porter
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"How alike are the American and British empires really? What are the connections between them? And what can we learn from the comparison? In this book, a historian of the British empire explores these questions in depth for the first time. Bernard Porter finds that Britain and America had uncannily similar imperial histories before the present day, but that now considerable differences exist. He argues that post-2001 American imperialism is an imperialism of a different sort - a show more 'super-imperialism' that no longer repeats British imperialism but now transcends it."--Jacket. show lessTags
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Bernard Porter is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He has also taught at the Universities of Cambridge and Hull, and (as Visiting Professor) at Yale, Sydney and Copenhagen Universities. He is the author often books and many articles, and a regular contributor to The Guardian, the London Review of show more Books, The Times Literary Supplement and History Today. He divides his time between Hull and Stockholm. show less
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- 325.320973090511 — Society, government, & culture Political science International migration and colonization English Imperialism North America United States
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- E895 .P67 — History of the United States Twenty-first century
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