Bad-Guy History

Two new books reflect our ambivalence about our own imperial past.

Mark F. Proudman

The American Empire and the Fourth World: The Bowl with One Spoon, Part One

Anthony J. Hall

McGill-Queen's University Press

683 pages, hardcover

ISBN: 0773523324

The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-1900

John C. Weaver

McGill-Queen's University Press

497 pages, hardcover

ISBN: 0773525270

Mark F. Proudman

Mark F. Proudman works in Ottawa. He holds a doctorate in imperial history from Oxford University.