{"product_id":"the-contours-of-american-history-0393305619","title":"The Contours of American History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0393305619\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Williams, William Appleman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A very good book indeed.... It is quietly reasoned, beautifully ordered, and spirited as hell.... [It] is not a book for children, nostalgic or otherwise.\"-Loren Baritz, The Nation William Appleman Williams was one of Americas greatest critics of US imperialism. The Contours of American History, first published in 1961, reached back to seventeenth-century British history to argue that the relationship between liberalism and empire was in effect a grand compromise, with expansion abroad containing class and race tensions at home. Coming as it did before the political explosions of the 1960s, Williamss message was a deeply heretical one, and yet the Modern Library ultimately chose Contours as one of the best 100 nonfiction books of the 20th Century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51855956607264,"sku":"NEW0393305619","price":28.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71pfVKqJsxL.jpg?v=1781544368","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-contours-of-american-history-0393305619","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}