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Aug 26, 2012 · "Empire for Liberty places both the theory and the practice of empire inside history. Richard Immerman's complex, ironic account of the American empire and its relation to the concept of liberty is an essential analysis of how the United States became the kind of power it is today and where it might now be going."—Marilyn B. Young, New York ...
- August 26, 2012
Jun 1, 2011 · Immerman's approach is to identify six major figures whose lives span the history of the United States, some of whom we may not necessarily associate as leading architects of American empire, and to survey the history of American foreign relations through them.
Apr 13, 2016 · The first arc in the history of the Greater United States, concerning western territories, is obviously central to any telling of U.S. history, and has been since at least Frederick Jackson Turner’s frontier thesis. But the second arc, concerning overseas territories, is regarded as less so.
- Daniel Immerwahr
- 2016
Taking readers from the founding of the republic to the Global War on Terror, Immerman shows how each individual's influence arose from a keen sensitivity to the concerns of his times; how the trajectory of American empire was relentless if not straight; and how these shrewd and powerful individuals shaped their rhetoric about liberty to suit th...
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- Richard H. Immerman
Sep 17, 2012 · The introduction sketches out Immerman’s aim, which is twofold: firstly, to show that “America is and always has been an empire” (p. 4), and secondly, to trace the different meanings that the notion of empire assumed over time and in what ways it changed.
Jul 1, 2010 · Immerman's brief study of six important architects of U.S. foreign policy argues that the idea of empire was inherent in the United States' national aspirations from the beginning.
Even if Franklin had been the original visionary of the American empire, Immerman describes how John Quincy Adams was really its creator. The legacy of Adams’ unparalleled success as sec‐ retary of state was complicated, Immerman writes, by his devotion to liberty.
