Is America an Empire?

On this episode, as America’s foreign relations once again dominates headlines, I want to explore just how powerful the country really is, and whether we should be understanding it as more than just a single nation, as I ask… Is America An Empire?

And to discuss this I am joined by two very excellent guests:

• Dr. Nicholas Grant, a historian of twentieth century United States and author of Winning Our Freedoms Together: African Americans and Apartheid, 1945-1960. His research focuses on race, internationalism and transnational activism.
• Dr. Sarah Nelson, an Assistant Professor at the Netherlands’ Universiteit Leiden, and a historian of US empire, global governance, and decolonization. Welcome

Mentioned in this episode:

BOOK: Winning Our Freedoms Together: African Americans and Apartheid, 1945-1960 by Nicholas Grant

BOOK: The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines by Paul A. Kramer

BOOK: Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson

BOOK: An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle T. Mays

ONLINE: A New Menace in Africa by Nelson Mandela

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