The main
reason this question is so complicated is that it is exceedingly nonsensical. Walter LaFeber
has, for many years, represented a left-leaning, revisionist school of thought that meticulously
(and, occasionally, successfully) advanced the notion that the emergence of the United States as
a major force in world affairs has led to the demise of every foreign culture the United States
has touched. As with many critics of globalization, he views the spread of American culture
through a neo-imperialist prism. The United States, unlike the great empires of the past,
especially the British, does not need to physically occupy foreign nations; it gradually,
somewhat imperceptibly, comes to dominate foreign nations through its economic and cultural
dominance.
Whereas LaFeber's work has traditionally focused on foreign
policy and, specifically, the history of U.S. foreign policy, Michael Jordan and the
New Global Capitalism cpnsiders the more subtle, if equally effective, form of the
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