IN THE SHADOWS OF THE AMERICAN CENTURY

In a completely original analysis, Alfred McCoy explores America's rise as a world power, from the 1890s through the Cold War and its bid to extend hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and military alliances. McCoy then analyzes the marquee instruments of US hegemony—covert interventions, client elites, psychological torture, and worldwide surveillance.

Alfred W. McCoy holds the Harrington Chair in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His 2009 book Policing America's Empire won the Kahin Prize from the Association for Asian Studies. In 2012, Yale University awarded him the Wilbur Cross Medal for work as “one of the world's leading historians of Southeast Asia and an expert on international political surveillance.”