Evil empire [electronic resource] : a reckoning with power / editors-in-chief, Deborah Chasman & Joshua Cohen.

""All history," writes Maximillian Alvarez in his contribution, "is the history of empire--a bid for control of that greatest expanse of territory, the past." Evil Empire confronts these histories head-on, exploring the motivations, consequences, and surprising resiliency of empire and its narrative...

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Other Authors: Chasman, Deborah (Editor)
Cohen, Joshua (Editor)
Alvarez, Maximillian (Contributor)
Singh, Nikhil Pal (Contributor)
Getachew, Adom (Contributor)
Roy, Arundhati (Contributor)
Sejpal, Avni (Interviewer)
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938- (Contributor)
Schrader, Stuart, 1978- (Contributor)
LeBrón, Marisol (Contributor)
Mishra, Pankaj (Contributor)
Ali, Wajahat (Interviewer)
Morefield, Jeanne, 1967- (Contributor)
Kimmage, Michael (Contributor)
Pasquale, Frank (Contributor)
Bould, Mark (Contributor)
Herrera, Yuri, 1970- (Contributor)
Dillman, Lisa (Translator)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : Boston Review, [2018]
Series:Forum (Cambridge, Mass.) ; 8.
Subjects:
Exceptionalism > United States > History.
Imperialism > History.
Political ethics > United States.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2018 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2018 (EBSCO)
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Editor's note / Deborah Chasman & Joshua Cohen
  • The end of the end of history / Maximillian Alvarez
  • Banking on the Cold War / Nikhil Pal Singh
  • The welfare world / Adom Getachew
  • The absurd apocalypse / Arundhati Roy interview by Avni Sejpal
  • What white supremacists know / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
  • The sources of U.S. conduct / Stuart Schrader
  • Puerto Rico's war on its poor / Marisol LeBrón
  • Empire's racketeers / Pankaj Mishra interviewed by Wajahat Ali
  • Intellectuals against noticing / Jeanne Morefield
  • The burden of being good / Michael Kimmage
  • Quantifying love / Frank Pasquale
  • Monsters vs. empire / Mark Bould
  • Appendix 15, number 2. The agent probii exploration / Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman.