Required:

Thomas Bender, “Empire as a Way of Life,” draft of chapter in unpublished book

Catherine C. LeGrand, “Living in Macondo:  Economy and Culture in a United Fruit Company, Banana Enclave in Columbia,” in Close Encounters of Empire:  Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations , eds., Gilbert M. Joseph, Catherine C. LeGrand, and Ricardo D. Salvatore (Durham:  Duke University Press, 1998), 333-357.

Recommended:

Antoinette Burton, Burdens of History:  British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915 (Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 1994).

Linda Colley, Captives:  Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850 (New Haven:  Yale University Press, 2001).

Philip D. Curtin, ed., Imperialism (New York:  Harper & Row, 1971).

Michael Doyle, Empires (Ithaca:  Cornell University Press, 1986).

Rupert Emerson, From Empire to Nation:  The Rise to Self-Assertion of Asian and African Peoples (Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 1962).

Theodore Friend, Between Two Empires:  The Ordeal of the Philippines, 1929-1946 (New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1965).

Dietrich Geyer, Russian Imperialism:  The Interaction of Domestic and Foreign Policy, 1860-1914, trans. Bruce Little (New York:  Berg, 1987).

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 2000).

Frank Hindman Golay, The Face of Empire: United States-Philippine Relations, 1898-1946 (Madison:  University of Wisconsin, 1998).

Geoffrey Hosking, Russia:  People and Empire, 1552-1917 (Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 1997).

Amy Kaplan and Donald E. Pease, eds., Cultures of United States Imperialism (Durham:  Duke University Press, 1993).

D.C.B. Lieven, Empire:  The Russian Empire and Its Rivals (New Haven:  Yale University Press, 2001).

Thomas J. McCormick, America’s Half Century: United States Foreign Policy in the Cold War and After (Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).

Mitchell Pacelle, Empire:  A Tale of Obsession, Betrayal, and the Battle for an American Icon (New York:  Wiley, 2001).

Brenda G. Plummer, Haiti and the Great Powers, 1902-1915 (Baton-Rouge:  Louisiana State University Press, 1988).

________. Haiti and the United States:  The Psychological Moment (Athens:  University of Georgia Press, 1992).

Edward Said, Orientalism (New York:  Vintage, 1994).

Peter W. Stanley, Nation in the Making:  The Philippines and the United States, 1899-1921 (Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 1974).

Ann Stoler, Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power:  Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2002).