The American 'Empire' and Other Studies of US Foreign Policy in a Comparative Perspective.

In a series of books and articles, Geir Lundestad, Director of the Nobel Institute in Oslo and Professor of History at the University of Tromso, has established himself as one of the foremost historians of the United States in Europe. The American 'Empire' and Other Studies of US Foreign Policy in a Comparative Perspective (Oxford/Oslo: U.P./Norwegian U.P., 1990; pp. 214. [pounds]22.50; pb. [pounds]12.50) is a collection of four chapters which have for the most part been published previously as articles, but which are brought together with some revisions in the more accessible form of a book. The first chapter, 'Moralism, Presentism, Exceptionalism, Provincialism and Other …