... fresh insights into its strategies of expansion and control. By highlighting the ways those strategies built on—and diverged from—the ones employed by the British Empire, the book provides a bracing challenge to claims of American exceptionalism. It is less illuminating or original, however, in its...

...Mithi Mukherjee In her response to Julian Go’s book Patterns of Empire , Mukherjee contends that the harder Go seeks to critique American exceptionalism, the more he has to insist on the liberal nature of the British Empire in India. By “liberal British rule,” Mukherjee writes, Go refers to certain...

...—toward a theory of the “new imperialism,” Powers argues that Black Reconstruction subverts a triumphal narrative of American constitutionalism as exceptionalism by undoing the temporality of legal progressivism that sustains it. Writing against a generation of historians who treated Reconstruction...

... exuded a heterogeneous, cosmopolitan character that blurred public borders in terms of class hierarchies and gendered, linguistic, and ethnic boundaries, and threatened an emerging Turkish cultural order. Both the narratives of American jazz exceptionalism and a predominant 1930s-centric Turkish...

.... In tandem its with powerful validationof empire building, exceptionalism also height atthe ofwestward especially lands, oftheir appropriation the and Americans of native justifi and progress, of theglobe, of civilization thediscourse in tracts colonizingswaddled in vast elision...

...- tive method sufficiently addresses the problem of Julian Go’s Patterns of Empire is an ambitious book American exceptionalism. Patterns of Empire points that argues against the exceptionality of Ameri...

...: A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2016 . Rodgers Daniel . “ American Exceptionalism Revisited .” Raritan 24 , no. 2 ( 2004 ): 21 – 47 . Saunders Frances Stonor . The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts...

... of American exceptionalism.4 and Russian metropoles at the time should hardly In the Russian case, among scholars in Europe surprise, given the central role of such mythologies and North American as well as St. Petersburg and in binding these and other modern nation-­states. Moscow, the fight...

... drivers — from Buenos Aires who would relish While most Americanists in the United States   today reject celebratory narratives of American the opportunity to overturn the Hones-Leyda exceptionalism and nationalism...

... . Vitalis Robert . “ Black Gold, White Crude: An Essay on American Exceptionalism, Hierarchy, and Hegemony in the Gulf .” Diplomatic History 26 , no. 2 ( 2002 ): 185 – 213 . Wolfe Joel . Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2010...

... pattern of development, and oux, 1990. that both held to a delusionary belief in their own Kennedy, Dane. “On the American Empire from a British exceptionality. Both have exercised imperial power...

... empire colonialism United States Britain exceptionalism References Bacevich A. J. American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of US Diplomacy . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2002 . Bergsten C. Fred , and Institute for International Economics . The United...

... of small things read from an intersectional to the American obsession with the discourse of perspective involving race, class, and gender. It is exceptionality, which, as Go argues, is not unique history from above, comparative political history. to America at all but shared...

... and philology.3 In the British gent need of imperial histories that do not take the context, Rome was the Victorian touchstone —  exceptionalism of American empire projects for routinely regarded, “in spite of all the barbarism, granted, or as the unacknowledged starting point...

... of Saudi Arabia . New York : New York University Press , 2000 . Vitalis Robert . America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier . London : Verso , 2009 . Vitalis Robert . “ Black Gold, White Crude: An Essay on American Exceptionalism, Hierarchy, and Hegemony in the Gulf...

..., narratives that evaluate the impact of modernization Deconstructing Images of “The Turkish Woman” (New 1889,” American Historical Review 103, no. 1 (1998): on gender roles and relations. York: Palgrave, 2000), attempts to draw connections...

... of Ameri- work of a “handful” of enlisted individuals.15 But the can exceptionalism that nobody but Americans claim that the Pentagon was unaware of the Abu believe.12 Ghraib incidents was at odds with International Red But Abu Ghraib did more than inspire moral...

... Press , 2019 . Go Julian . Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . Go Julian . “ The Provinciality of American Empire: ‘Liberal Exceptionalism’ and U.S. Colonial Rule, 1898–1912 .” Comparative...

... With Volume XIII, and in its fourteenth year of result of the imbrication of social scientific inquiry publication, South Asia Bulletin is moving into a new within the matrix of European colonial priorities, phase in its existence. Hitherto, our principal focus and the later exigencies of American...

... history rightly challenges the exceptionalism shaping histories of revolutionary Ethiopia and Iran alike. Yet insofar as it replicates paradigmatic texts recounting European and American experiences, global histories too position third world revolutionary experiences as derivative. How might we instead...