... 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...

.... 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...

... 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...

... is it a story of Anglo-­imperial progress. In fact, economy, using them “as a guiding light” (236). Go ends his book with a sober warning: “Empires In so doing, he produces and advances a typology that insist on their exceptionality do not behave of British and American empire that allows “for a well...

...: 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 .” Review of Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present , by Go Julian . H-Net Reviews , May 2012 , www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=35292 . Brown Kate . “ Gridded Lives: Why Kazakhstan and Montana Are Nearly the Same Place...

... 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...

... held to a delusionary belief in their own Kennedy, Dane. “On the American Empire from a British exceptionality. Both have exercised imperial power Imperial Perspective.” International History Review 29, while...

... 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...

... , 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 .” Diplomatic History 26 , no. 2 ( 2002 ): 185 – 213...

..., 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...

... York : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . Go Julian . “ The Provinciality of American Empire: ‘Liberal Exceptionalism’ and U.S. Colonial Rule, 1898–1912 .” Comparative Studies in Society and History 49 , no. 1 ( 2007 ): 74 – 108 . Habtu Alem . “ Ethiopian Student Rejects...

... and the later exigencies of American imperialism, has been on the politics, economies and cultures of expressed somewhat crudely in the area studies ap- South Asia. We have, in the past, published the oc- proaches prevalent in the modern academy. It will casional article, or even focus section...

... revolutions of late eighteenth-century France and the United States, events taken for granted as the groundwork for conceptions of revolution and of history. The 1979 revolution in Iran, we claimed then, is taken as a harbinger of all that is wrong with revolutionary politics today. If the 1776 American...