Empire's Twin

Empire's Twin broadens our conception of anti-imperialist actors, ideas, and actions; it charts this story across the range of American history, from the Revolution to our own era; and it opens up the transnational and global dimensions of American anti-imperialism.

Ian Tyrrell is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of New South Wales. He is the author of Reforming the World, Transnational Nation, and Historians in Public. Jay Sexton is Associate Professor of American History at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. He is the author of The Monroe Doctrine and Debtor Diplomacy and coeditor of The Global Lincoln.

Empire's Twin is an admirable collection of research with insightful conclusions that manages to cover succinctly a great deal of information. It is a noteworthy and necessary start to a trend in historiography that will hopefully begin to place American anti-imperialism alongside American imperialism in importance.

Mary A. Renda:

This rich and provocativeargument invites wide-ranging conversationabout variations and disjunctions in thehistory of anti-imperialism.... The result is anengaging collection that advances our understanding in part through its productively untidy scope.

Andrew Preston, Cambridge University, author of Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy:

Historians are increasingly turning their attention to the study of the United States as an empire. But what of those Americans who challenged the nation's expansionist world role? The superb essays in Empire's Twin brilliantly examine the phenomenon of anti-imperialism. They demonstrate that America's rise to globalism was neither preordained nor uncontested. By shining light on this important but neglected topic, Ian Tyrrell andJay Sexton have done historians of the United States and the world a tremendous service.

Christopher Capozzola, MIT, author of Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen:

Empire's Twin spans space, time, and the disciplines to craft a breathtaking new approach to an underexplored area of U.S. history. Moving from the revolutionary era to the 1980s, it documents anti-imperialism in U.S. history and depicts it as a tradition with a long, complex, and surprising history. This is a bold and exciting book, featuring some of the most distinguished scholars in the history of U.S. foreign relations, tackling a crucial intellectual problem at the cutting edge of historical scholarship today.

Anne Foster, Indiana State University, author of Projections of Power: The United States and Europe in Colonial Southeast Asia, 1919–1941:

Empire's Twin is an important beginning to a conversation that should be taking place (and largely is not) about the degree to which the United States has deserved its reputation as an anti-imperialist nation. The authors offer provocative explanations about the motivations and extent of U.S. anti-imperial action and ideology. Everyone interested in how the U.S. exercise of power is and has been perceived by others should read this collection. The writing is uniformly accessible to a wide array of readers.