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Article: Plotting against history.(The Cold War And the New Imperialism: A Global History, 1945-2005)(Book review)
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The Cold War And the New Imperialism: A Global History, 1945-2005
by Henry Heller
Monthly Review Press, 2006
That long-distance runner of the American Left, Harry Magdoff, once wrote, "As a rule, polite academic scholars prefer not to use the term 'imperialism.' They find it distasteful and unscientific." How times have changed. While their manners may not be in question, bourgeois intellectuals no longer shy away from using the "I-word." With the ascendancy of the neocons in Washington and their attempted realization of the Project for the New American Century, "imperialism" and "empire" have moved from the margins to the centre of academic ...