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Title Evil empire : a reckoning with power / editors-in-chief, Deborah Chasman & Joshua Cohen
Published Cambridge, MA : Boston Review, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (125 pages)
Series Boston Review Forum, 0734-2306 ; 8
Forum (Cambridge, Mass.) ; 8
Contents Editor's note / Deborah Chasman & Joshua Cohen -- The end of the end of history / Maximillian Alvarez -- Banking on the Cold War / Nikhil Pal Singh -- The welfare world / Adom Getachew -- The absurd apocalypse / Arundhati Roy interview by Avni Sejpal -- What white supremacists know / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz -- The sources of U.S. conduct / Stuart Schrader -- Puerto Rico's war on its poor / Marisol LeBrón -- Empire's racketeers / Pankaj Mishra interviewed by Wajahat Ali -- Intellectuals against noticing / Jeanne Morefield -- The burden of being good / Michael Kimmage -- Quantifying love / Frank Pasquale -- Monsters vs. empire / Mark Bould -- Appendix 15, number 2. The agent probii exploration / Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman
Summary ""All history," writes Maximillian Alvarez in his contribution, "is the history of empire--a bid for control of that greatest expanse of territory, the past." Evil Empire confronts these histories head-on, exploring the motivations, consequences, and surprising resiliency of empire and its narratives. Contributors grapple with the economic, technological, racial, and rhetorical elements of U.S. power and show how the effects are far-reaching and, in many ways, self-defeating. Drawing on a range of disciplines--from political science to science fiction--our authors approach the theme with imagination and urgency, animated by the desire to strengthen the fight for a better future."--Page 4 of cover
Notes "Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Yuri Herrera, Pankaj Mishra, Frank Pasquale, Arundhati Roy, Nikhil Pal Singh"--Cover
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Subject Exceptionalism -- United States -- History
Imperialism -- History
Political ethics -- United States
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Exceptionalism
Imperialism
Political ethics
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Chasman, Deborah, editor
Cohen, Joshua, editor
Alvarez, Maximillian, contributor
Singh, Nikhil Pal, contributor
Getachew, Adom, contributor
Roy, Arundhati, contributor
Sejpal, Avni, interviewer
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938- contributor
Schrader, Stuart, contributor
LeBrón, Marisol, contributor
Mishra, Pankaj, contributor
Ali, Wajahat, interviewer
Morefield, Jeanne, 1967- contributor
Kimmage, Michael, contributor
Pasquale, Frank, contributor
Bould, Mark, contributor
Herrera, Yuri, 1970- contributor
Dillman, Lisa, translator
ISBN 9781946511225
1946511226