Americans have long believed that the very notion of empire is an offense against our democratic heritage, yet in recent months, these two words -- American empire -- have been on everyone's lips. At this moment of unprecedented economic and military strength, the leaders of the United States have embraced imperial ambitions openly. How did we get to this point? And what lies down the road?
To address these questions, Metropolitan Books offers the American Empire Project. In these short, argument-driven books, our leading writers and thinkers will mount an immodest challenge to the fateful exercise of empire-building and to explore every facet of the developing American imperium, while suggesting alternate ways of thinking about, confronting, and acting in a new American century.
The project has been developed by Tom Engelhardt (www.tomdispatch.com) and Steve Fraser, two editors with long and distinguished careers in publishing -- at Pantheon and Basic Books -- who are themselves historians and writers. In future seasons, Chalmers Johnson, who made "blowback" a household word, will take on the far reach of American militarism and what it means to garrison the planet in The Sorrows of Empire. Michael Klare will ask, in Blood and Oil, how American dependency on petroleum drives our strategic planning. And in How to Succeed at Globalization: A Primer for the Roadside Vendor, Mexican cartoonist Rafeal Barajas will depict the world economy from the perspective of the very small businessman. Read Blog.
The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum
In his pathbreaking Resource Wars, world security expert Michael Klare alerted us to the role of resources in conflicts in the post-cold-war world. Now, in...
"...issuing a warning to the UnitedStates—its most powerful, and most dependent, global consumer. Since September11 and the commencement of the "war on terror," the world's attention has been focused..."
A New York Times bestseller, Nemesis is Chalmers Johnson’s “fiercest book—and his best” (Andrew J. Bacevich)
In his prophetic book Blowback, Chalmers...
"...become known as the Blowback Trilogy, he shows how imperial overstretch is undermining the republic..."
CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror
“An indispensable and riveting account” of the CIA’s development and use of torture, from the cold war to Abu Ghraib and beyond (Naomi Klein, The Nation)
In...
"..., America’s century, the UnitedStates had a crisis worthy of its grandeur as a global power, one revealing..."
In this first collection of interviews since the
bestselling 9-11, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial new questions of U.S. foreign...
"..., the doctrine of “preemptive” strikes against so-called rogue states, and the prospects of the second Bushadministration, warning of the growing threat to international peace posed by the U.S. drive..."
Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism
An eye-opening examination of Latin America’s role as proving ground for U.S. imperial strategies and tactics
In recent years, one book after another has...
"...for American extraterritorial rule. Historian Greg Grandin follows the UnitedStates’ imperial..."
Now with a new and up-to-date Introduction by the author, the bestselling account of the effect of American global policies, hailed as “brilliant and...
"...as “brilliant and iconoclastic” (Los Angeles Times) The term “blowback,” invented by the CIA, refers..."
How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam
The first complete account of America’s most
dangerous foreign policy miscalculation: sixty years of support for Islamic fundamentalism
Devil’s Game is...
"...did the UnitedStates encourage and finance the spread of radical political Islam? Backed by extensive archival research and interviews with dozens of policy makers and CIA, Pentagon, and foreign..."
The world’s foremost critic of U.S. foreign policy exposes the hollow promises of democracy in American actions abroad—and at home
The United States has...
"...in American actions abroad—and at home The UnitedStates has....
The world’s foremost critic of U.S...."
From the world's foremost intellectual activist, an irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that are...
".... Our earth and its skies are, for the Bushadministration, the final frontiers of imperial control..."
"The war in Iraq has been a victory of moral fervor over moral clarity. The first without the second is a curse on itself. James Carroll brings to bear-I hope...
"...of September11, George W. Bush made the most stirring-and ominous-declaration of his presidency. "Americans..."
A biting comic-book history of capitalism and globalization from the “dean of Mexico’s vigorous corps of political cartoonists” (The...
"..., hilarious rush, cartoonist Rafael Barajas, aka El Fisgón (“the peeper”), takes us from the dawn of capitalism to the age of global conglomerates, showing how the world economy developed and how it functions today. Amid the laughs, he offers a critique of a planet in which the few “globalize..."
A riveting documentary anthology that examines a deeply disturbing question: Is the United States guilty of war crimes in Iraq?
Until recently, the...
"...A riveting documentary anthology that examines a deeply disturbing question: Is the UnitedStates guilty of war crimes in Iraq? Until recently, the....
A riveting documentary anthology that examines a deeply disturbing question: Is the UnitedStates guilty of war crimes in Iraq? Until recently, the possibility that the UnitedStates was responsible for war crimes seemed unthinkable to most..."
“An urgent book.”—Arundhati Roy
Three years after the start of the war in Iraq, violence and misery continue to plague the country, and conservatives and...
"...—U.S. and coalition forces should leave. In this cogent and compelling book, Anthony Arnove argues that the U.S. occupation is the major source of instability and suffering for the Iraqi people. Challenging the idea that George W. Bush was ever interested in bringing democracy to Iraq—and the view..."
From the bestselling author of The Fate of the Earth, a provocative look at the urgent threat posed by America’s new nuclear policies
When the cold war...
"...administration after September11 has taken a severe beating at the hands of events. Proliferation..."
An indispensable set of interviews on foreign and domestic issues with the bestselling author of Hegemony or Survival, “America’s most useful citizen.” (The...
"...and 2007, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: Iran’s challenge to the UnitedStates, the deterioration of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the ongoing occupations of Iraq..."
A mind-boggling investigation of the allpervasive, constantly morphing presence of the Pentagon in daily life—a real-world Matrix come alive
Here is the...
"...has not only garrisoned the globe, but come home to dominate the UnitedStates. For anyone..."
Adapted from the bestselling grassroots history of the United States, the story of America in the world, told in comics form
Since its landmark publication...
"...Adapted from the bestselling grassroots history of the UnitedStates, the story of America..."
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