Empires Apart: A History of American and Russian Imperialism
By Brian Landers.
Description
A fresh, commanding, and thought-provoking narrative history of the competing Russian and American empires.The American road to empire started when the first English settlers landed in Virginia. Simultaneously, the first Russians crossed the Urals and the two empires that would dominate the twentieth century were born. Empires Apart covers the history of the Americans and Russians from the Vikings to the present day. It shows the two empires developed in parallel as they expanded to the Pacific and launched wars against the nations around them. They both developed an imperial 'ideology...
ISBN(s)
1605981060, 9781605981062
