Концепция "имперского антиколониализма" У.Э. Уильямса в американской радикальной историографии
The Concept of “Imperial Anti-Colonialism” of W.A. Williams in the American Radical Historiography

Summary/Abstract: The historical concept of “imperial anti-colonialism” introduced by the American historian W.A. Williams has been studied. The aim of the research is to investigate the above-mentioned concept in the foreign policy of the United States based on W.A. Williams’s work “The Tragedy of American Diplomacy”. In order to achieve the aim of the research, the following tasks have been set: to analyze the historical background to the emergence of expansionist ideas in the USA; to consider works on the foreign expansion of the United States in American historiography published before W.A. Williams introduced the concept of “imperial anti-colonialism”; to analyze the concept of “imperial anti-colonialism” of W.A. Williams in his work “The Tragedy of American Diplomacy” with detailed explanation and assessment; to show the development of the concept in the American radical and modern historiography. The relevance of the research is determined by the fact that little attention has been paid in the modern Russian historiography to the works created by the representatives with the unique view – American radical historians – and their concepts. The concept of W.A. Williams in the American radical historiography has been investigated for the time. W.A. Williams’s concept reveals the expansionist nature of the foreign policy of the United States during the period from the 1890s to the World War I and shows the main reasons for the beginning foreign expansion with its ideological, economic and political components. It has been concluded that W.A. Williams made an important contribution to the study of the foreign policy of the United States by the introduction of a new approach and laid the foundations for further research of expansionist policy in the American radical historiography.

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