Empire for liberty
Subtitle: a history of American imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz
By: Richard H. Immerman.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780691127620
Subjects: Imperialism -- History; Liberty -- Political aspects -- United States -- History; United States -- Foreign relations; United States -- Territorial expansion -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : contending with the American empire; title: Benjamin Franklin and America's imperial vision; title: John Quincy Adams and America's tortured empire; title: Wlliam Henry Seward reimagines the American empire; title: Henry Cabot Lodge and the new American empire; title: John Foster Dulles and the conflicted empire; title: Paul Wolfowitz and the lonely empire; title: Postscript : the dark side.