Abstract
Setting the United States amid a review of empires and claiming the setting will illuminate the contemporary American condition only makes sense if America does indeed have an empire. Going farther and studying those empires in order to prevent the United States from falling into imperial traps only makes sense if our general view of empire is a negative one. Both views/assumptions are, of course, highly controversial. There are plenty of people out there who think that empires are good things. There are plenty of people out there who think that the American Empire is a particularly good thing, and there are plenty of others who deny that America is an empire at all. Before we can sensibly develop any comparative analysis of America and its predecessor empires, we need first to deal directly with those who deny the validity of the comparison.
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