America's Shadow: An Anatomy of EmpireU of Minnesota Press, 2000 - 287 pagini A study of imperialism that stretches from ancient Rome to the post-Cold War World, this provocative work boldly revises our assumptions about the genealogy of the West. Rather than locating its source in classical Greece, William V. Spanos argues, we should look to ancient Rome, which first articulated the ideas that would become fundamental to the West's imperial project. These founding ideas, he claims, have informed the American national identity and its foreign policy from its origins. The Vietnam War is at the center of this book. In the contradiction between the "free world" logic employed to justify U.S. intervention in Vietnam and the genocidal practices used to realize that logic, Spanos finds the culmination of an imperialistic discourse reaching back to the colonizing rationale of the Roman Empire. Spanos identifies the language of expansion in the "white" metaphors in Western philosophical discourse since the colonization of Greek thought by the Romans. He shows how these metaphors, and their role in metaphysical discourse, have long been complicit in the violence of imperialism. |
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... United States . 2. Vietnamese Conflict , 1961-1975 - Influence . 3. Imperialism - United States - History - 20th century . 4. East and West . 5. Postmodernism - Political aspects - United States . I. Title . DS558.S687 2000 325'.32'0973 ...
... United States . 2. Vietnamese Conflict , 1961-1975 - Influence . 3. Imperialism - United States - History - 20th century . 4. East and West . 5. Postmodernism - Political aspects - United States . I. Title . DS558.S687 2000 325'.32'0973 ...
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... and , not least , its brutal conduct by the United States — had disintegrated . This was the excep- tionalist national image that had its origins in the American Puritans ' XV " errand in the wilderness " to " build a.
... and , not least , its brutal conduct by the United States — had disintegrated . This was the excep- tionalist national image that had its origins in the American Puritans ' XV " errand in the wilderness " to " build a.
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... United States's threat of intervention ; and the emergent threat of nuclear war between India and Pakistan . Indeed , references to the end of history and the New World Order have all but disappeared from mediatic and theoretical ...
... United States's threat of intervention ; and the emergent threat of nuclear war between India and Pakistan . Indeed , references to the end of history and the New World Order have all but disappeared from mediatic and theoretical ...
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... United States in the trope of a sheriff leading posses ( the appropriate members of the United Nations ) to quell threats to global stability and peace posed by this international deregulation . Despite Haass's acknowledgment that ...
... United States in the trope of a sheriff leading posses ( the appropriate members of the United Nations ) to quell threats to global stability and peace posed by this international deregulation . Despite Haass's acknowledgment that ...
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... United States . I mean by this — in keeping with the unex- ceptionalist ( i.e. , European ) imperial origins of " America " disclosed by a genealogical reading of the American canonical tradition — the Pax Americana . The structure of ...
... United States . I mean by this — in keeping with the unex- ceptionalist ( i.e. , European ) imperial origins of " America " disclosed by a genealogical reading of the American canonical tradition — the Pax Americana . The structure of ...
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