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Touring the American empire of bases with the Marines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Richard Tanter  and
US Marine Corps
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In the decade after the end of the Cold War, triumphalist U.S. public intellectuals, liberal and conservative alike, were trying on the mantle of ‘empire’ for size. For many at the time, while ‘US imperialism’ denoted kneejerk leftism, ‘the American empire’ might just be an appropriate acknowledgement of achievement on a global scale, an accolade about reality rather than a matter of opprobrium.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 16 , Issue 22 , November 2018 , e5
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1 A shorter version of this article appeared as ‘Darwin, the Marines, and touring the American Empire of Bases’ on Pearls & Irritations, 17 November 2018.