imperialism

Content about imperialism – states attempting to assert their power and influence over other states – and struggles against imperialism.

Bombing of Vietnam, 1965, public domain

The Korean War: A history - Bruce Cumings

For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953 that has long been overshadowed by World War II, Vietnam, and the War on…

Dominion from sea to sea: Pacific ascendancy and American power - Bruce Cumings

America is the first world power to inhabit an immense land mass open at both ends to the world’s…

Dancing in the glory of monsters: The collapse of the Congo and the great war of Africa - Jason K. Stearns

At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering…

Empire's workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the rise of the new imperialism - Greg Grandin

The British and Roman empires are often invoked as precedents to the Bush…

The sorrows of empire: Militarism, secrecy, and the end of the republic - Chalmers Johnson

In the years after the Soviet Union imploded, the United States was described first…

Nemesis: The last days of the American republic - Chalmers Johnson

In his prophetic book Blowback, Chalmers Johnson linked the CIA's clandestine activities abroad to…

Dismantling the empire: America's last best hope - Chalmers Johnson

In his prophetic book Blowback, published before 9/11, Chalmers Johnson warned that our secret…

Blowback: The costs and consequences of American empire - Chalmers Johnson

The term “blowback,” invented by the CIA, refers to the unintended results of American actions…

Statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled, Iraq 2003

Overthrow: America's century of regime change from Hawaii to Iraq - Stephen Kinzer

"Regime change" did not begin with the administration of George W. Bush, but has been an integral…

The untold history of the United States - Peter Kuznick and Oliver Stone

The companion to the Showtime documentary series, director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick…

The crisis in the German social democracy (the Junius pamphlet) - Rosa Luxemburg

German communist Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the imperialist rivalries that exploded in World War I…

The British West Indies Regiment mutiny, 1918 - Steven Johns

A short history of the mutiny at Taranto in Italy by West Indian soldiers in the British army at the…