[This interview has been edited for concision.] VICE: You've taken your anti-imperial argument to major news media across the country to promote the book.
These results support the argument that imperial agents' site-placement decisions considered the benefits of locations with large viewsheds.
Without western imperial order, so this argument goes, the world would be a nasty, brutish place.
He disputed the argument for imperial continuity that was laid out so potently in The Great Escape, John Sturges' 1963 film.
According to Lactantius, Diocletian and Galerius entered into an argument over imperial policy towards Christians while wintering at Nicomedia in 302.
The story that Ferguson tells is typical of the arguments liberal imperial propagandists made during the19th century.
The British historian Niall Ferguson makes a similar argument for an imperial America in his new book, "Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power".
According to Lactantius, Diocletian and Galerius entered into an argument over what imperial policy towards Christians should be while at Nicomedia in 302.
Surely, the argument went, their former imperial rulers owed something to the inhabitants of the British Commonwealth and the Francophone world.
Even the great imperial museums of Vienna, London and Paris make an argument: they are meant to reflect the power and grandeur of their creators.
It is difficult to make a solid argument about America's imperial temptation when you willfully discount the darkening world that greeted the fledgling superpower in the 1930's and 40's.
