"Seymour's obsessively researched, impressive first book holds its place as the most authoritative historical analysis of its kind."?Resurgence

Introduction: Americans and empire - a love-hate relationship? What is imperialism? What remains of the legacy of anti-imperialism from Vietnam to Nicaragua? 1) Empire of liberty: from the revolution to the Mexican war.2) Winning the West: from civil war to the closing of the frontier.3) Cuba Libre: the colonial thrust of 1898, and the emergence of the Anti-Imperialist League (Charles Beard, Twain et al).4) Wilsonianism and its Discontents: how the Anti-Imperialist League fought Wilson over Haiti; the left opposition to WWI and the first pangs of 'Cold War'.5) Bolshevism and anti-imperialism: American communism, Trotskyists, the Abraham Lincoln brigades, and WWII.6) Cold War and decolonisation: communism, the African American left, resisting the Cold War consensus, etc.7) Vietnam and after: how the civil rights movement fed into the antiwar movement, first signs of sympathy with Palestine, explicit anti-imperialism, William Appleman Williams, Gabriel Kolko, Noam Chomsky, etc. Solidarity movements in Nicaragua, Haiti and elsewhere.8) The fall of the Berlin wall, 20 years hence. Solidarity movements, pro-Palestine activism, GI resistance, etc.