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Politics

Global Babble

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May 2003, no. 251

Implicating Empire: Globalization and resistance in the 21st century world order edited by Stanley Aronowitz and Heather Gautney

Basic Books, 384 pp, $39.95 pb

Politics

Global Babble

by •
May 2003, no. 251

Empire is everywhere. You can see it in the shanty towns of São Paulo and on the coffee tables of the well-heeled in Boston and Sydney. It made us, in its British form, in the antipodes via the expeditions of Cook and Banks, and all that followed. Now it dominates our newspapers and television screens in the form of war.

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Peter Beilharz is an Australian sociologist who has taught at La Trobe and Curtin University. He is the founding editor of Thesis Eleven and has published books devoted to writers and scholars such as Karl Marx, Bernard Smith, and Zygmunt Bauman. 

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