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Patterns of Empire Julian Go (Boston University)

Patterns of Empire By Julian Go (Boston University)

Patterns of Empire by Julian Go (Boston University)

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Examines the two most powerful empires in modern history: the United States and Britain. The book shows how the policies, practices, forms and historical dynamics of the American empire repeat those of the British, leading up to the present economic and political climate.

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Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present by Julian Go (Boston University)

Patterns of Empire comprehensively examines the two most powerful empires in modern history: the United States and Britain. Challenging the popular theory that the American empire is unique, Patterns of Empire shows how the policies, practices, forms and historical dynamics of the American empire repeat those of the British, leading up to the present climate of economic decline, treacherous intervention in the Middle East and overextended imperial confidence. A critical exercise in revisionist history and comparative social science, this book also offers a challenging theory of empire that recognizes the agency of non-Western peoples, the impact of global fields and the limits of imperial power.

Patterns of Empire Reviews

'Rigorously thought out, lucidly written, and empirically insightful, Julian Go's work dispatches arguments that the United States has not been an empire and sets out convincingly the changing nature of that empire. Far from being just a demonstration of what ought to have been obvious before now - the role of empire in American history - Go advances our understanding of the trajectory of empire and informs contemporary debates about the future of the United States and its global hegemony. This is a stunning application of transnational and comparative methods of analysis.' Ian Tyrrell, Scientia Professor of History, University of New South Wales
'Julian Go's book is, simply, in a different league from almost all previous work in the field. Combining close historical analysis with conceptual rigor, joining the skills and strengths of the historian with those of the social scientist, this is a project of striking originality.' Stephen Howe, University of Bristol

About Julian Go (Boston University)

Julian Go is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University. He is also a Faculty Affiliate in Asian Studies and New England and American Studies at Boston University. He is editor of the journal Political Power and Social Theory. He is a former Academy Scholar at Harvard University's Academy for International and Area Studies. His first book, American Empire and the Politics of Meaning, won the Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book from the American Sociological Association and was a finalist for a Philippines National Book Award. His other books include The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives, which he co-edited and More American Than We Admit: The Influence of American Culture on the Philippines, which he edited.

Table of Contents

1. Imperial paths to power; 2. Colonial rules; 3. Hegemonies and empires; 4. Imperial forms, global fields; 5. Weary titans: declining powers, new imperialism; 6. The dynamics of imperialism.

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NLS9781107600782
9781107600782
1107600782
Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present by Julian Go (Boston University)
Julian Go (Boston University)
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Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2011-09-30
304
Winner of Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations, International Studies Association 2014
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