Volume 50, Number 20 · December 18, 2003
Staging the Empire
By Ian Buruma
Curzon: Imperial Statesman
by David Gilmour
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 684 pp., $45.00
Imperialism is back in fashion. Or so it would seem from a spate of recent articles and books, telling Americans to stiffen their backbones and shoulder their imperial burden with more vigor. Praise of the British Empire is now openly expressed in a nation which once fought proudly for its freedom from British rule, and great imperial statesmen are held up as models: from Palmerston to Rumsfeld, as it were.
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