Savior and Seducer A Renegade History of the United States in the World

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Savior and Seducer A Renegade History of the United States in the World | 18.16 MB

Title: Savior and Seducer A Renegade History of the United States in the World
Author: Thaddeus Russell
Category: United States, Government, Political Science, Popular Culture
Language: English | 802 Pages | ISBN: 9780802146496​

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From the author of A Renegade History of the United States, a boldly persuasive, provocative counter-narrative that reframes our understanding of America's role in the wider world
Over the past 250 years, historian Thaddeus Russell argues in his bold and eye-opening new book, America has projected two opposing forces abroad: one imperial and the other liberating. Contrary to the common view that the Founders were isolationists, he contends that they envisioned a global empire-and that, ever since, the nation has cast itself as a savior, claiming a mission to uplift the world and impose the American way of life through armed force. Simultaneously, Russell shows, the global spread of American popular culture emerged as one of modern history's most subversive forces-an existential threat to authoritarian regimes that was frequently more destabilizing than military intervention, yet free of the violent blowback that typically accompanies foreign...

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