NPR's Liane Hansen has the second half of her conversation with the authors of two new books on the use of American power in the world. Niall Ferguson is Herzog Professor of Financial History at the ...

I have been posting on the religious dimensions of empire in American history, and I have stressed how the nation’s imperial expansion from earliest times must be seen in that imperial context. Over ...

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Before America ever existed, another superpower faced the nightmare every empire fears: enemies closing in from every direction while its own leaders tore the system apart from within. In the early ...

In his novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, which is eerily evocative of our current political plight, Gabriel Garcia Marquez described how a Latin American autocrat “discovered in the course of his ...

Once there was an empire that governed roughly a quarter of the world’s population, covered about the same proportion of the Earth’s land surface, and dominated nearly all its oceans. The British ...