Contours of American History, Paperback by Williams, William Appleman, Like N...

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Item Length: 0.8 in Language: English ISBN: 9780393305616 Item Height: 0.1 in Publication Year: 1989 Topic: United States / General Illustrator: Yes Item Weight: 19.8 Oz Number of Pages: 520 Pages Features: Reprint Item Width: 0.5 in width: 0.5 in height: 0.1 in Author: William Appleman Williams Genre: History Book Title: Contours of American History Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w. Format: Trade Paperback

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Contours of American History, Paperback by Williams, William Appleman, Like N.... Contours of American History, Paperback by Williams, William Appleman, ISBN 0393305619, ISBN-13 9780393305616, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US William Appleman Williams was one of America’s greatest critics of US imperialism. The Contours of American History, first published in 1961, reached back to seventeenth-century British history to argue that the relationship between liberalism and empire was in effect a grand compromise, with expansion abroad containing class and race tensions at home. Coming as it did before the political explosions of the 1960s, Williams’s message was a deeply heretical one, and yet the Modern Library ultimately chose Contours as one of the best 100 nonfiction books of the 20th Century. Contours of American History, Paperback by Williams, William Appleman, ISBN 0393305619, ISBN-13 9780393305616, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US William Appleman Williams was one of America’s greatest critics of US imperialism. The Contours of American History, first published in 1961, reached back to seventeenth-century British history to argue that the relationship between liberalism and empire was in effect a grand compromise, with expansion abroad containing class and race tensions at home. Coming as it did before the political explosions of the 1960s, Williams’s message was a deeply heretical one, and yet the Modern Library ultimately chose Contours as one of the best 100 nonfiction books of the 20th Century.