America by Victor Kiernan
This pioneering study provides unparalleled insight into the history, culture, and politics of American imperialism.
Readers of many kinds will have much to learn from a study so packed with information and insight, both conveyed with unflagging eleganceIt surveys, period by period, in groups of closely linked essays, U.S. dealings with Amerindians at home and with non-Anglo-Saxon peoples abroad ... And Kiernan is one of the few British historians ... who know how to use literature as evidence. * Angus Calder, in New Edinburgh Review *
He (Kiernan) became the master of the perfectly chosen quotation inserted into a demure but uncompromising survey of a global scene. * Eric Hobsbawm *
The re-issue of Kiernan's fine study of American imperialism is a very welcome event. His acute analysis, penetrating insights, and immense knowledge have lost none of their luster and are of great contemporary significance. * Noam Chomsky *
A graphic account of imperial imaginings * Perry Anderson, in American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers *
He (Kiernan) became the master of the perfectly chosen quotation inserted into a demure but uncompromising survey of a global scene. * Eric Hobsbawm *
The re-issue of Kiernan's fine study of American imperialism is a very welcome event. His acute analysis, penetrating insights, and immense knowledge have lost none of their luster and are of great contemporary significance. * Noam Chomsky *
A graphic account of imperial imaginings * Perry Anderson, in American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers *
Victor Kiernan (1913–2009) ranks among Britain's most distinguished historians. After a fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, and a long period spent teaching in India, he joined the History Department at the University of Edinburgh, where he served as professor of modern history from 1970 until his retirement. Over the course of his life he authored such works as The Lords of Human Kind, European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, Shakespeare: Poet and Citizen, Tobacco: A History and numerous others, as well as translating two volumes of Urdu poetry.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781783605989 |
| ISBN 10 | 1783605987 |
| Title | America |
| Author | Victor Kiernan |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2015-10-15 |
| Number of pages | 472 |
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