Imperialism
Write a short essay on imperialism throughout history based on the following sources:
(1) Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, viiix; and, Book I, Ch. 6 (the debate at Sparta); Book 2, Ch. 4
(Pericles’ funeral ovation); and Book 5, Ch. 7 (the Melian dialogue).
(2) Benjamin Cohen, The Question of Imperialism, p.22958.
(3) J.A. Hobson, Imperialism, p.7193.
(4) V.I. Lenin, Imperialism, p.6298.
(5) Pagden, Anthony Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France, c. 1500c.1800,
Chapter 1.
(6) Porter, Andrew. European Imperialism, 18601914. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1994, Chapter 1.
(7) Eisenstadt, S. N. The Political Systems of Empires. New York: Free Press, 1963, p. 35, 1024.
(8) Paul Baran, “On the Political Economy of Backwardness,” The Manchester School of Economy and Social
Studies, January, 1952, V.XX, No. 1: p.6684.
(9) Joseph Schumpeter, Imperialism and Social Classes, p.83130.
(10) John Stuart Mill, Essays on Equality, Law, and Education, p.11124.
(11) Tony Smith, The Pattern of Imperialism (read applicable chapters).
(12) Mann, Michael The Sources of Social Power, Vol. 1: A History of Power from the Beginning to A.D. 1760,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986: Chapter 5, “The First Empires of Domination,” p. 130178, and
Chapter 8, “Revitalized Empires of Domination,” p. 231249.
(13) Kuhrt, Amélie “The Achaemenid Persian Empire (c. 550c. 330 BCE): Continuities, Adaptations,
Transformations, in Susan E. Alcock et al. (eds.), Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and History, pp. 93
123.
(14) G.John Ikenberry, “A Liberal Hegemony or Empire? American Power in the Age of Unipolarity, in David
Held and Mathias KoenigArchibugi, eds., American Power in the TwentyFirst Century, 2004, 83113.
(15) William Appleman Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, Chs. 1, 2 and 6.
(16) Stephen Krasner, Defending the National Interest, Ch. 2.
(17) Franz Schurmann, The Logic of World Power, Ch. 1 (skim; read for the focus on ideology as the driving
variable of American imperialism).
(18) Daniel H. Nexon and Thomas Wright, “What is at Stake in the American Empire Debate,” American
Political Science Review, May 2007 (a useful definitional exercise that distinguishes imperialism from
hegemony and unipolarity).
(19) Niall Ferguson, Colossus, 2004 (read applicable chapters. Argues that the U.S. runs an empire but is
reluctant to admit it; urges the U.S. to be a more effective imperial power).
(20) Charles Maier, Among Empires, 2006 (read applicable chapters. A liberal account that situates U.S.
“empire” in a comparative context; focus is on U.S. Relations with Europe).
(21) Motyl, Alexander J. 2006. “ls Everything Empire? Is Empire Everything?” Comparative Politics 38 (2):
229249. (A critique of some of the recent literature that characterizes the US as imperialist).
(22) Jeremi Suri, “The Limits of American Empire: Democracy and Militarism in the Twentieth and Twentyfirst
Centuries,” in Alfred W. McCoy and Francisco A. Scarano, eds., Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making
of the Modern American State (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009), 523–531
(23) Christina Duffy Burnett and Burke Marshall, “Between the Foreign and the Domestic: The Doctrine of
Territorial Incorporation, Invented and Reinvented,” from Burnett and Marshall, eds., Foreign in a Domestic
Sense: Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001), p. 1–36
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