Product Description

Twenty-one selections from his major historical writings, offering the key arguments of the most influential and controversial American historian of his generation.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #903135 in Books
• Published on: 1992-10-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 417 pages

From Library Journal
The dean of American revisionist historians, Williams produced three decades ago path-breaking, controversial historical analysis that is as fresh and pointed today as at its inception. A heavy influence on modern historians, Williams was among the first to articulate a view of American history as a record of self-serving economic and imperialistic activity and to explain U.S.-Soviet relations within that framework. Williams challenged the traditional explanation of the Cold War as a product of Soviet aggression and was a strident contemporary critic of the United States's policy of containment as espoused by George Frost Kennan. These 19 selections include two previously unpublished essays. Together they form a valuable summary of the thinking of one of our most potent intellectuals. A most appropriate acquisition for libraries serving undergraduate as well as graduate students.
- Susan E. Parker, Harvard Law Sch. Lib.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
A splendid collection from his works...a real treat. -- Virginia Quarterly Review

Concise. -- Paul Buhle and Eric Rice-Maximin, Dissent

Path-breaking, controversial analysis that is as fresh and pointed today as at its inception. -- Library Journal

Voluminous writing... [Williams] altered conventional interpretations of American diplomatic history. -- Journal of the Early Republic