Background
Williams, William Appleman was born on June 12, 1921 in Atlantic, Iowa, United States. Son of William Carleton and Mildrede (Appleman) Williams.
(A bold work of feminist international relations that cont...)
A bold work of feminist international relations that contributes to our understanding of the gendered, racialized, and heteronormative dynamics of U.S. foreign policy, both in relations with Russia and in the invasion of Iraq. Co-winner of the 2009 SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in Women’s and Gender Studies, Imagining Russia uses U.S.–Russian relations between the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a case study to examine the deployment of gendered, racialized, and heteronormative visual and narrative depictions of Russia and Russians in contemporary narratives of American nationalism and U.S. foreign policy. Through analyses of several key post-Soviet American popular and political texts, including the hit television series The West Wing, Washington D.C.’s International Spy Museum, and the legislative hearings of the Freedom Support Act and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, Williams calls attention to the production and operation of five types of “gendered Russian imaginaries” that were explicitly used to bolster support for and legitimize U.S. geopolitical unilateralism after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, demonstrating the ways that the masculinization of U.S. military, political, and financial power after 1991 paved the way for the invasion of Iraq in 2003. “Williams has written a masterful look at the gendered rhetoric produced in the West (and sometimes by Russians themselves) to describe post-Soviet Russia in the aftermath of the Cold War … Highly recommended.” — CHOICE “This is an outstanding book and an excellent example of feminist IR analysis. The thesis and objectives are to show the ideological causes of (asymmetrical and deteriorating) U.S.–Russian relations, which Williams convincingly argues are rooted in gendered understandings.” — Valentine M. Moghadam, coeditor of Making Globalization Work for Women: The Role of Social Rights and Trade Union Leadership. Kimberly A. Williams is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at Mount Royal University.
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“A brilliant book on foreign affairs.”―Adolf A. Berle Jr., New York Times Book Review This incisive interpretation of American foreign policy ranks as a classic in American thought. First published in 1959, the book offered an analysis of the wellsprings of American foreign policy that shed light on the tensions of the Cold War and the deeper impulses leading to the American intervention in Vietnam. William Appleman Williams brilliantly explores the ways in which ideology and political economy intertwined over time to propel American expansion and empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The powerful relevance of Williams’s interpretation to world politics has only been strengthened by recent events in Central Asia and the Persian Gulf. Williams allows us to see that the interests and beliefs that once sent American troops into Texas and California, or Latin America and East Asia, also propelled American forces into Iraq.
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First edition. A quite serviceable copy. Ex-library. Very cleab internally, with a small number of pages written on. Boards worn and moderately soiled.
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“An unblinkered look at our imperial past . . . a perceptive work by one of our most perceptive historians.”—Studs Terkel A work of remarkable prescience, Empire As A Way of Life is influential historian William Appleman Williams’s groundbreaking work highlighting imperialism—“empire as a way of life”—as the dominant theme in American history. Analyzing U.S. history from its revolutionary origins to the dawn of the Reagan era, Williams shows how America has always been addicted to empire in its foreign and domestic ideology. Detailing the imperial actions and beliefs of revered figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, this book is the most in-depth historical study of the American obsession with empire, and is essential to understanding the origins of our current foreign and domestic undertakings. Back in print for the first time in twenty-five years, this new edition features an introduction by Andrew Bacevich, author of The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War and American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy.
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(This critical approach emphasizes that history should do ...)
This critical approach emphasizes that history should do more than shed light on why a policy is inadequate or wrong - that it should also breed ideas about how to move from the past to the future. Williams's ideas are so far out of touch with the reality of most people that his work was often dismissed out of hand. The notion, for example, that women could either have marketplace equality or a satisfying home life, makes this book extraordinarily outdated but still an interesting study in the outdated ideas it contains.
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William Appleman Williams was one of America’s greatest critics of US imperialism. The Contours of American History, first published in 1961, reached back to seventeenth-century British history to argue that the relationship between liberalism and empire was in effect a grand compromise, with expansion abroad containing class and race tensions at home. Williams was not the first historian to identify the United States as an imperial power, yet he was unique in linking domestic disquiet to the long history of American expansion, which he traced back to England’s Glorious Revolution. Reaching deep into thirteenth century British history to identify the motor contradictions of what eventually would become known as liberalism, Williams presents a wholly original interpretation of US history; one where the story of the United States is the story of capitalism. Coming as it did before the political explosions of the 1960s, Williams’s message was a deeply heretical one, and yet the Modern Library ultimately chose Contours as one of the best 100 nonfiction books of the 20th Century. This fiftieth anniversary edition will introduce this magisterial work to a new readership, with a new introduction by Greg Grandin, one of today’s leading historians of US foreign policy.
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Williams, William Appleman was born on June 12, 1921 in Atlantic, Iowa, United States. Son of William Carleton and Mildrede (Appleman) Williams.
Bachelor of Science, United States Naval Academy, 1944. Postgraduate, University Leeds, England, 1948. Master of Arts, University Wisconsin, 1948.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1950.
Commissioned ensign, United States Navy, 1944.
resigned,, 1947;
member of faculty, professor of history, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1957-1968;
professor, Oregon State University, Corvallis, 1968-1986;
professor emeritus, Oregon State University, Corvallis, 1986-1990. Fulbright scholar U. Melbourne, Australia, 1977. James Pinckney Harrison professor College William and Mary, 1980.
Instructor maritime history Oreg.Coast Community College, 1989.
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Active civil rights movement, 1946-1947. Member Organization American Historians (president 1980-1981).
Married Wendy Williams. Children: Ward, Kyenne, Savoy Jade.