Book on Imperialism

[Drace]

Im looking for a good read on Imperialism. Not theory, but rather just to learn of the crimes committed by the US and other capitalist powers.
I don't want to read Lenin until I'm familiar with the subject.

Any recommendations?
I was thinking A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

[GPDP]

Stephen Kinzer's Overthrow is pretty good. It covers a lot of the U.S.'s overthrows of foreign governments, from Hawaii to Iraq.

[FreeFocus]

Killing Hope by William Blum or, and I highly recommend this, The Forging of the American Empire by Sidney Lens.

[Montes]

Failed States by Noam Chomsky. Not all about imperialism per say but definitely along those lines.

[ComradeOm]

Piers Brendon's The Decline and Fall of the British Empire reads like a list of atrocities and police states from around the world. He covers all the usual topics, including the 'British Gulag' of Kenya which is covered in more detail in Elkins' Imperial Reckoning

[bailey_187]

Aime Cesaire - Discourse on Colonialism (more of an anti-colonialist/imperialist manifesto)
Alex Callinicos - Imperialism and global political economy

Frantz Fanon's writings are meant to be good anti-colnialist writings but i tried reading "Wretched of the earth" and i found it abit hard and gave up - its kind of psychology stuff IIRC

I just started reading "Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism" by Kwame Nkrumah, what i read so far is good so i recommend that too (its on Marxist.org)

[Drace]

Thanks guys.
I wish I saw this thread before I went to the library

I did get Failed States by Noam Chomsky though. I read a few pages. Chomsky seems to get off topic a bit...Or perhaps he just has a bad way of organizing his thoughts.
The book starts off talking about nuclear weapons and just cites a bunch of different people's opinions on it.

[GPDP]

Thanks guys.
I wish I saw this thread before I went to the library

I did get Failed States by Noam Chomsky though. I read a few pages. Chomsky seems to get off topic a bit...Or perhaps he just has a bad way of organizing his thoughts.
The book starts off talking about nuclear weapons and just cites a bunch of different people's opinions on it.

A lot of Chomsky's books are little more than compilations of transcripts of lectures and speeches he's given before. I can't recall if Failed States is one such book. I have the book myself, but I can't be arsed to look and see. :tt2:

[Glenn Beck]

A lot of Chomsky's books are little more than compilations of transcripts of lectures and speeches he's given before. I can't recall if Failed States is one such book. I have the book myself, but I can't be arsed to look and see. :tt2:

No, that's exactly what it is. Failed States is also a lame rehash/extension of Hegemony or Survival which is the one that is actually worth reading.

[Misanthrope]

Imperialism: A Study

[bailey_187]

Penny Hess - Overturning the Culture of Violence is meant to be good, i have not read it yet though

[mykittyhasaboner]

http://www.michaelparenti.org/books.html

http://www.michaelparenti.org/articles.html

[RED DAVE]

William A. Williams

Tragedy of American Diplomacy

The Contours of American History

RED DAVE

[Cymru]

John Pilger is a good read. The new rulers of the world (i think thats what it is called)

As someone above mentioned, Chomsky is also worth a read

[Pawn Power]

I will strongly second Killing Hope by Blum and Hegemony or Survival by Chomsky

[x359594]

Confronting the Third World by Gabriel Kolko, American Holocaust by David Stannard and Year 501: the Conquest Continues by Noam Chomsky (this is his clearest examination of imperialism, with case studies drawn from Cuba, Haiti, Indonesia and Latin America) are all comprehensive and insightful. The "American Empire Trilogy" (Blowback, The Sorrows of Empire and Nemesis) by Chalmers Johnson is a detailed account of the Clinton and Bush II years.

[berlitz23]

disaster capitalism-naomi klein