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Endless Empire Spain’s Retreat, Europe’s Eclipse, America’s Decline Edited by Alfred W. McCoy, Josep M. Fradera, and Stephen Jacobson Published October 2012 LC: 2012010172 492 pp.   6 x 9 29 b/w illustrations ISBN 978-0-299-29024-5 Paper $29.95 s ISBN 978-0-299-29023-8 eBook $21.95 s History / Politics / Public Policy / International Relations Description: Throughout four millennia of recorded history there has been no end to empire, but instead an endless succession of empires. After five centuries of sustained expansion, the half-dozen European powers that ruled half of humanity collapsed with stunning speed after World War II, creating a hundred emerging nations in Asia and Africa. Amid this imperial transition, the United States became the new global hegemon, dominating this world order with an array of power that closely resembled that of its European predecessors. As Brazil, Russia, India, China, and Europe now rise in global influence, twenty leading historians from four continents take a timely look backward and forward to discover patterns of eclipse in past empires that are already shaping a decline in U.S. global power, including: • erosion of economic and fiscal strength needed formilitary power on a global scale • misuse of military power through micro-militarymisadventures • breakdown of alliances among major powers • weakened controls over the subordinate elites critical for any empire’s exercise of global power • insufficient technological innovation to sustain global force projection. Blurbs: “An exceptionally comprehensive look at empire in a genuinely global context. The scope and sophistication of these essays are unequaled anywhere.” —Franklin W. Knight, Johns Hopkins University “A rich combination of historical expertise, comparative perspective, and engagement with contemporary trends at the outset of the twenty-first century. It should be a foundational text and point of reference for teaching and scholarship on imperial histories and on American power in today’s world.” —John Sidel, London School of Economics “An immediate classic. This timely, rich collection delves into the varied consequences of imperial decline, comparing the Spanish and Portuguese, British and French, and U.S. imperial trajectories.” —Anne Foster, Indiana State University Reviews: [Reviews will be posted when they are available.] Excerpts: [Excerpts will be posted when they are available.] Editors’ bios: Alfred W. McCoy is the J.W.R. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the author of Policing America’s Empire. Josep M. Fradera is professor of history at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, and author of many books on Spanish colonial history, including Colonias para después de un imperio. Stephen Jacobson is associate professor of history at Pompeu Fabra, and author of Catalonia’s Advocates. For more information, in addition to this press kit, contact our publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu [Return to the book page for Endless Empire]

Cover image: This cover image can be downloaded and used in any web-based publicity for this book. For a 300 dpi version, click here. Editors’ Photos:   Alfred W. McCoy   These images can be downloaded and used in any web-based publicity for this book. For a 300 dpi version, click here.   Josep M. Fradera These images can be downloaded and used in any web-based publicity for this book. For a 300 dpi version, click here.   Stephen Jacobson These images can be downloaded and used in any web-based publicity for this book. For a 300 dpi version, click here. U.S. Empire Project

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