Ian Tyrrell, "Empire's Twin: U.S. Anti-imperialism from the Founding Era to the Age of Terrorism "
English | ISBN: 0801479193 | 2015 | 312 pages | EPUB | 428 KB
Across the course of American history, imperialism and anti-imperialism have been awkwardly paired as influences on the politics, culture, and diplomacy of the United States. The Declaration of Independence, after all, is an anti-imperial document, cataloguing the sins of the metropolitan government against the colonies. With the Revolution, and again in 1812, the nation stood against the most powerful empire in the world and declared itself independent. As noted by Ian Tyrrell and Jay Sexton, however, American "anti-imperialism was clearly selective, geographically, racially, and constitutionally."