NOTE: The following is a brief six-page excerpt from a 60 page
chapter on the origins of the American Empire at the end of
World War II. The chapter, nearly complete, is one of several
chapters in a book being funded and facilitated through The
People’s Book Project, which is aimed at producing a multi-
volume book on a modern history of institutions and ideas of
power and resistance. Included within the volumes are: the
emergence of nation-states, capitalism, and central banking; the
rise of the European empires and colonization; the emergence of
new dynastic powers, namely the banking and industrial families
of the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Morgans, et. al.; the
development of the mass education system as a means of social
control; the emergence and evolution of university education,
the social sciences, and the formation of new concepts of social
control and methods of social engineering; the development,
purpose, and effects of philanthropic foundations on society;
the emergence and evolution of the consu