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America in the Shadow of Empires

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  • © 2014

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  1. David Coates

    1. Wake Forest University, USA

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • David Coates
      Pages 1-3

  3. The Problem

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. The Nature of our Contemporary Condition

      • David Coates
      Pages 7-31

    3. The Question of Empire

      • David Coates
      Pages 33-50

  4. The Parallels

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. The Glory that was Rome

      • David Coates
      Pages 53-79

    3. Spain the Rise and Fall of a Dynastic Empire

      • David Coates
      Pages 81-103

    4. The Rise and Fall of the British Empire

      • David Coates
      Pages 105-135

    5. Russian Empires Old and New

      • David Coates
      Pages 137-158

    6. The Lessons of Empire

      • David Coates
      Pages 159-167

  5. The Reckoning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    2. A New Rome on the Potomac?

      • David Coates
      Pages 171-200

    3. Toward a Better America

      • David Coates
      Pages 201-218

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 219-267
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The focus of the book is the cost of empire, particularly the cost in the American case – the internal burden of American global leadership. The book builds an argument about the propensity of external responsibilities to undermine the internal strength, raising the question of the link between weakening and the global spread of American power.

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  • Wake Forest University, USA

    David Coates

About the author

David Coates holds the Worrell Chair in Anglo-American Studies at Wake Forest University, USA. He previously held personal chairs at the universities of Leeds and Manchester in the UK. He has written extensively on US and UK public policy, comparative political economy, and the history of labor movements.

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