The Empire's New Clothes: Paradigm Lost, and Regained

The Empire's New Clothes: Paradigm Lost, and Regained
ISBN-10
0972819673
ISBN-13
9780972819671
Category
History
Pages
123
Language
English
Published
2004
Publisher
Prickly Paradigm Press
Author
Harry D. Harootunian

Description

Empire and imperialism have returned with a vengeance—not as a set of ideas and practices to be exhumed by the historians, but as paradigms for twenty-first-century living. Harry Harootunian turns his unrelenting gaze to signs of the new imperialism in the world—from the United States’ occupation of Iraq to other supposed terrorist enclaves around the globe. The arguments being made today for imperialism’s historical and contemporary value echo earlier rationales for modernization theory and its conception of “development” during the heyday of the Cold War. Harootunian decisively cuts through the layers to reveal that under the new clothes, it’s the same empire.

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