American Empire: Imperialist vs Anti-Imperialist

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Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire 4.06 avg rating — 2,526 ratings
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Confronting Imperialism: Essays on Mark Twain and the Anti-Imperialist League
Confronting Imperialism: Essays on Mark Twain and the Anti-Imperialist League
by: Jim Zwick
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle 3.95 avg rating — 5,937 ratings
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The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire 3.95 avg rating — 1,361 ratings
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To the Person Sitting in Darkness (annotated)
To the Person Sitting in Darkness (annotated) 3.85 avg rating — 60 ratings
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism 4.15 avg rating — 23,623 ratings
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Aep: Dismantling The Empire
Aep: Dismantling The Empire 3.95 avg rating — 410 ratings
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The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century 3.95 avg rating — 4,679 ratings
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Mark Twain's Weapons of Satire: Anti-imperialist Writings on the Philippine-American War
Mark Twain's Weapons of Satire: Anti-imperialist Writings on the Philippine-American War 3.96 avg rating — 27 ratings
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War Is A Racket!: And Other Essential Reading
War Is A Racket!: And Other Essential Reading 4.27 avg rating — 8,130 ratings
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent 4.31 avg rating — 26,229 ratings
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The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898
The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 3.82 avg rating — 1,588 ratings
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Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century
Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century 3.89 avg rating — 70 ratings
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning 4.12 avg rating — 6,766 ratings
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U.S. Imperialism and Progressivism: 1896 to 1920
U.S. Imperialism and Progressivism: 1896 to 1920 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba (The Perez Family, #4)
The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba (The Perez Family, #4) 3.95 avg rating — 17,081 ratings
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American Empire: A Global History
American Empire: A Global History 3.65 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The Soviet White Paper on the North Atlantic Pact
The Soviet White Paper on the North Atlantic Pact 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Remember the Maine, to Hell With Spain: America's 1898 Adventure in Imperialism
Remember the Maine, to Hell With Spain: America's 1898 Adventure in Imperialism really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism 4.40 avg rating — 8,493 ratings
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States 4.46 avg rating — 19,122 ratings
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The Statesman and the Storyteller: John Hay, Mark Twain, and the Rise of American Imperialism
The Statesman and the Storyteller: John Hay, Mark Twain, and the Rise of American Imperialism 3.83 avg rating — 248 ratings
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Andrew Jackson: The Course of American Empire, 1767-1821. Vol. 1
Andrew Jackson: The Course of American Empire, 1767-1821. Vol. 1 4.33 avg rating — 540 ratings
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Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt 4.17 avg rating — 2,956 ratings
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The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism
The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism 4.49 avg rating — 86 ratings
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A People's History of American Empire
A People's History of American Empire 4.15 avg rating — 2,940 ratings
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Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt
Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt 4.22 avg rating — 1,201 ratings
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Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. A Guide for Foreigners
Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. A Guide for Foreigners 4.43 avg rating — 90 ratings
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The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717
The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 4.02 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
by: J. Sakai
4.18 avg rating — 1,027 ratings
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Unfamiliar Fishes
Unfamiliar Fishes 3.64 avg rating — 15,299 ratings
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Native Liberty, Crown Sovereignty: The Existing Aboriginal Right of Self-Government in Canada (McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series) (Volume 4)
Native Liberty, Crown Sovereignty: The Existing Aboriginal Right of Self-Government in Canada (McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series) (Volume 4) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Empire
Empire 3.86 avg rating — 2,469 ratings
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Empires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800-1860
Empires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800-1860 4.06 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Obama's Unending Wars: Fronting the Foreign Policy of the Permanent Warfare State
Obama's Unending Wars: Fronting the Foreign Policy of the Permanent Warfare State 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Moro War: How America Battled a Muslim Insurgency in the Philippine Jungle, 1902-1913
The Moro War: How America Battled a Muslim Insurgency in the Philippine Jungle, 1902-1913 4.06 avg rating — 160 ratings
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This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy 4.28 avg rating — 504 ratings
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The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic 4.14 avg rating — 1,589 ratings
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Moments in Hell: Notes of a War Correspondent
Moments in Hell: Notes of a War Correspondent 3.56 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic 4.06 avg rating — 961 ratings
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Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope
Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope 3.95 avg rating — 410 ratings
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All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt 4.10 avg rating — 769 ratings
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Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship (Nation Books)
Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship (Nation Books) 3.74 avg rating — 415 ratings
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The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan
The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan 3.45 avg rating — 20 ratings
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First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power
First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power 3.93 avg rating — 175 ratings
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In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines 4.10 avg rating — 812 ratings
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Empire
Empire 3.86 avg rating — 2,469 ratings
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Honor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of America's Imperial Dream
Honor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of America's Imperial Dream 3.92 avg rating — 395 ratings
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Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America's Richest City
Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America's Richest City 3.27 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace 3.83 avg rating — 1,771 ratings
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Cuba in War Time
Cuba in War Time 3.69 avg rating — 35 ratings
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How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic
How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic 3.82 avg rating — 1,160 ratings
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American Insurgents: A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism
American Insurgents: A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism 4.11 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Yellow Kids: Foreign Correspondents in the Heyday of Yellow Journalism
The Yellow Kids: Foreign Correspondents in the Heyday of Yellow Journalism 3.69 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Black Ships: Illustrated Japanese History--The Americans Arrive
Black Ships: Illustrated Japanese History--The Americans Arrive 4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The War Prayer
The War Prayer 4.40 avg rating — 2,224 ratings
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Liberty and American Anti-Imperialism: 1898-1909
Liberty and American Anti-Imperialism: 1898-1909 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings and America's First Imperial Adventure
Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings and America's First Imperial Adventure 3.72 avg rating — 1,260 ratings
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The World According to Tomdispatch: America In The New Age of Empire
The World According to Tomdispatch: America In The New Age of Empire 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Twelve Against Empire: The Anti Imperialists, 1898-1900
Twelve Against Empire: The Anti Imperialists, 1898-1900 3.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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A Nation Unmade by War
A Nation Unmade by War 3.53 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground
Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground 3.91 avg rating — 112 ratings
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The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
The Tragedy of American Diplomacy 3.87 avg rating — 511 ratings
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God's Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902
God's Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 3.47 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Empire As A Way of Life
Empire As A Way of Life 4.09 avg rating — 99 ratings
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The Rough Riders
The Rough Riders 3.78 avg rating — 3,503 ratings
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The Contours of American History
The Contours of American History 4.23 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Roots of the Modern American Empire
Roots of the Modern American Empire 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 4.22 avg rating — 22,140 ratings
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From Colony to Empire: Essays in the History of American Foreign Relations
From Colony to Empire: Essays in the History of American Foreign Relations liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The White Man's Burden
The White Man's Burden 2.12 avg rating — 304 ratings
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Anti-Imperialism in the United States: The Great Debate, 1890-1920
Anti-Imperialism in the United States: The Great Debate, 1890-1920 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Carl Schurz 1829-1906
Carl Schurz 1829-1906 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America 4.23 avg rating — 1,870 ratings
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Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903
Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903 3.84 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Mark Twain and the Colonel: Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Arrival of a New Century
Mark Twain and the Colonel: Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Arrival of a New Century 3.59 avg rating — 74 ratings
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American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy
American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy 4.03 avg rating — 187 ratings
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The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783 [Illustrated edition]
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783 [Illustrated edition] 3.93 avg rating — 1,171 ratings
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War, Inc.
War, Inc. really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Gospel of Wealth and Other Writings
The Gospel of Wealth and Other Writings 3.72 avg rating — 233 ratings
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The Demilitarized Society: Disarmament & Conversion (NONE)
The Demilitarized Society: Disarmament & Conversion (NONE) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Captain Jinks: Hero
Captain Jinks: Hero 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases
Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Third World Politics: An Introduction
Third World Politics: An Introduction 3.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies 3.72 avg rating — 4,190 ratings
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Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World
Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World 4.17 avg rating — 353 ratings