Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu. The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal

In 1959, William Appleman Williams published The Tragedy of American Diplomacy. It was a book that boldly set out to trace the contours of America’s imperial trajectory from the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. Williams’ approach to U.S. foreign policy put him in the vanguard of what would become New Left historical revisionism during the 1960s. His reassessment of American history which in part involved his deployment of such concepts as imperialism and empi...