About the Book: Reconsidering American Power : Pax Americana and the Social
Sciences
Postcolonial studies, postmodern studies, even posthuman studies emerge, and
intellectuals demand that social sciences be remade to address fundamentals of
the human condition, from human rights to global environmental crises. Since
these fields owe so much to American state sponsorship, is it easier to
reimagine the human and the modern than to properly measure the pervasive
American influence? Reconsidering American Power offers trenchant studies by
renowned scholars who reassess the role of the social sciences in the
construction and upkeep of the Pax Americana and the influence of Pax Americana
on the social sciences. With