America's ShadowExamines the mind set of Western imperialism from its origins in the Roman Empire to the Vietnam War. A study of imperialism that stretches from ancient Rome to the postCold War world, this provocative work boldly revises our assumptions about the genealogy of the West. Rather than locating its source in classical Greece, William V. Spanos argues, we should look to ancient Rome, which first articulated the ideas that would become fundamental to the