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The American Empire Project KEYWORDS:
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.
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A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book
Blood and OilThe Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported PetroleumIn 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... |
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A New York Times bestseller, Nemesis is Chalmers Johnson’s “fiercest book—and his best” (Andrew J. Bacevich) In his prophetic book Blowback, Chalmers... |
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A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book
A Question of TortureCIA 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... |
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In this first collection of interviews since the bestselling 9-11, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial new questions of U.S. foreign... |
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Metropolitan Books
Empire's WorkshopLatin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New ImperialismAn 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... |
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A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book
Blowback, Second EditionThe Costs and Consequences of American EmpireNow 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... |
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The first complete account of America’s most dangerous foreign policy miscalculation: sixty years of support for Islamic fundamentalism Devil’s Game is... |
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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... |
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From the world's foremost intellectual activist, an irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that are... |
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"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... |
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A biting comic-book history of capitalism and globalization from the “dean of Mexico’s vigorous corps of political cartoonists” (The... |
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A riveting documentary anthology that examines a deeply disturbing question: Is the United States guilty of war crimes in Iraq? Until recently, the... |
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“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... |
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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... |
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From the author of the prophetic national bestseller Blowback, a startling look at militarism, American style, and its consequences abroad and at home In... |
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An indispensable set of interviews on foreign and domestic issues with the bestselling author of Hegemony or Survival, “America’s most useful citizen.” (The... |
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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... |
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Metropolitan Books
A People's History of American EmpireAdapted from the bestselling grassroots history of the United States, the story of America in the world, told in comics form Since its landmark publication in... |
