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ask us to admire the energy of Lewis’s style without confronting the inescapable and often scandalous ideological content of Lewis’s works: the aggressivity and sexism

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he turns his attention abroad to consider the prospects for socialism in the West

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The Contours of American History keyword-latin-america the changing forms of AmericanWilliam Appleman Williams was one of Americas greatest critics of US imperialism. The Contours of American History, first published in 1961, reached back to seventeenth century British history to argue that the relationship between liberalism and empire was in effect a grand compromise, with expansion abroad containing class and race tensions at home. Williams was not the first historian to identify the United States as an imperial power, yet he was