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First published 1953

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace

by Harry Elmer Barnes

Caxton Press, 1953696 pagesUpdated July 16, 2007

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Harry Elmer Barnes is available as a free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle download at freecapitalists.org.

Author
Harry Elmer Barnes
First published
1953
Format
PDF, EPUB, and Kindle
Pages
696
Publisher
Caxton Press
License
Believed to be in the public domain: this work was published in the 1932-1963 window when US copyright had to be renewed after 28 years, and no renewal was found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. Not independently confirmed.

War & foreign policy

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How long is Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace?
696 pages, 19 chapters, and about 147,065 words in the edition this archive serves.
Is Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace in the public domain?
Believed so. US works published between 1932 and 1963 kept copyright past 28 years only if someone filed a renewal, and no renewal for this work was found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. That is a search result rather than a legal opinion: a renewal filed under a shortened title or a different claimant would not have been found. Some copies carry a rights notice, which records the original claim and does not extend a term that lapsed.
Who wrote Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace?
Harry Elmer Barnes (1889-1968) was a pioneer of historical revisionism, meaning the use of historical scholarship to challenge and refute the narratives of history promulgated by the state and the political class, or as Barnes himself termed it, "court…

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19 chapters · 147,065 words · free to read here

  1. Preface
  2. 1. Revisionism and the Historical Blackout
  3. 1. War has transformed the American Dream
  4. 2. Revisionism after two World Wars
  5. 3. How the historical blackout operates
  6. 4. Global crusading and the historical blackout
  7. Note on 1984 Conceptions of history
  8. 2. The United States and the Road to War in Europe
  9. 3. Roosevelt is Frustrated in Europe
  10. 4. How American Polcy Toward Japan Contributed to War in the Pacific
  11. Japanese-American Relations 1921-1941
  12. The Actual Road to PEarl Harbor
  13. The Pearl Harbor Investigations
  14. The Bankruptcy of a Policy
  15. American Foreign Policy in the Light of National Interest at the Mid-Century
  16. Summary and Conclusions
  17. Subject Index
  18. Index of Names
  19. About this edition
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Harry Elmer Barnes 1889–1968

Harry Elmer Barnes (1889-1968) was a pioneer of historical revisionism, meaning the use of historical scholarship to challenge and refute the narratives of history promulgated by the state and the political class, or as Barnes himself… Read more about Harry Elmer Barnes.

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