Empire and superempire
Subtitle: Britain, America, and the world
By: Bernard Porter.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Imperialism -- History.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1997-; United States -- Foreign relations.; Great Britain -- Foreign relations.; United States -- Colonial question.; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History.
Description: "How alike are the American and British empires really? What are the connections between them? And what can we learn from the comparison? In this book, a historian of the British empire explores these questions in depth for the first time. Bernard Porter finds that Britain and America had uncannily similar imperial histories before the present day, but that now considerable differences exist. He argues that post-2001 American imperialism is an imperialism of a different sort - a 'super-imperialism' that no longer repeats British imperialism but now transcends it."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Like a house of cards; title: The British empire, myth and reality; title: Not colonies, but outposts; title: The American imperial tradition; title: We don't do empire; title: American "imperialism" after 9/11; title: Still a global player; title: British post-imperialism.