American Empire

American  

noun

1. a style of American furniture making and related crafts from c1815 to c1840, corresponding to the French Empire and late English Regency styles.

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American Empire

Tom Engelhardt is a co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of The United States of Fear as well as a history of the cold war titled The End of Victory Culture.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2016

The list led Ruppert to publish his first book, 2004’s Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil.

From The Verge ● Jul. 22, 2014

And he found a mahogany-and-chintz American Empire sofa at a store in Bridgehampton, N.Y., pickled the wood and used a teal-and-bronze fabric from Lee Jofa.

From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2013

Steve Fraser is editor-at large of New Labor Forum, co-founder of the American Empire Project , a writer, TomDispatch contributor, and an historian.

From Salon ● May 3, 2010

Behind him are the resources, productive machinery and surplus of the American Empire.

From The American Empire by Scott Nearing

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