Re: Global ambition

["Michael Keaney" <michael.keaney@xxxxxx>]

Mr. Zimmerman moreover has a point of
view, namely that American imperialism was not, as other historians have
believed, an accident, a reluctant byproduct of events. It was there from
the beginning.

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This is exactly the argument that Charles Beard advanced, albeit from a
different, and presumably more critical, stance. Expansionism was written
into whichever version of development the US followed, whether it would be
the Jeffersonian agrarian model or the Hamiltonian industrial model. Both
involved the securing of markets backed by military force where necessary,
and an excellent exposition of this in practice is the recent book by
Richard Tucker, "Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological
Degradation of the Tropical World" (University of California Press, 2000).

On Beard see Clyde W. Barrow, "More than a historian" (Transaction
Publishers, 2000).

Michael Keaney



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