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Colossus : The Rise and Fall of the American Empire

By: Publication details: London; Penguin; 2005Description: 386 Pages; PaperbackISBN:
  • 9780141017006
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.73
Summary: Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book shows, the US is in many ways the greatest imperial power of all time. What's more, it always has been an empire, expanding westwards throughout the nineteenth century and rising to global dominance in the twentieth. But is today's American colossus really equipped to play Atlas, bearing the weight of the world on its shoulders? The United States, Ferguson reveals, is an empire running on empty, weakened by chronic defecits of money, manpower and political will. When the New Rome falls, he warns, its collapse may come from within.
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Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Karachi In Store 327.73 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Withdrawn Not For Loan Book Bazaar PKLC020150
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Lahore History 327.73 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available PKLC022580
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Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book shows, the US is in many ways the greatest imperial power of all time. What's more, it always has been an empire, expanding westwards throughout the nineteenth century and rising to global dominance in the twentieth. But is today's American colossus really equipped to play Atlas, bearing the weight of the world on its shoulders? The United States, Ferguson reveals, is an empire running on empty, weakened by chronic defecits of money, manpower and political will. When the New Rome falls, he warns, its collapse may come from within.

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