Charles S. Maier

Charles S. Maier (born February 23, 1939) is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor Emeritus of History at Harvard University. He teaches European and international history at Harvard.

Quotes

• If an empire, post-World War II America was the empire that dared not speak its name. But these days, on the part of friends and critics alike, the bashfulness has ended.
  • "An American Empire?", Harvard Magazine, vol. 105, no. 8 (November–December, 2002), p. 28. See also: The Cold War In Europe: Era of a Divided Continent (New York: Marcus Wiener Publishing, Inc., 1991), pt. 1, sec. 1, p. 5
  • Cf. John Taft, American Power: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Globalism (New York: Harper & Row, 1989), ch. 7, p. 212:

    The result of Teddy Roosevelt's mission was the Spanish-American War and a U.S. empire that dared not speak its name.

  • Cf. Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (London: Allen Lane, 2003), conclusion:

    It is an empire, in short, that dare not speak its name. It is an empire in denial.