The Empire's New Clothes: Paradigm Lost, and Regained

by Harry D. Harootunian

Overview

Empire and imperialism have returned with a vengeance—not as a set of ideas and practices to be exhumed by the historians, but as paradigms for twenty-first-century living. Harry Harootunian turns his unrelenting gaze to signs of the new imperialism in the world—from the United States’ occupation of Iraq to other supposed terrorist enclaves around the globe.

The arguments being made today for imperialism’s historical and contemporary value echo earlier rationales for modernization theory and its conception of “development” during the heyday of the Cold War. Harootunian decisively cuts through the layers to reveal that under the new clothes, it’s the same empire.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780972819671
Publisher:	Prickly Paradigm Press
Publication date:	12/15/2004
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	4.50(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Harry Harootunian is the Max Palevsky Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Chicago and an adjunct senior scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. He is the author of Marx after Marx: History and Time in the Expansion of Capital and, most recently, Uneven Moments: Reflections on Japan’s Modern History.