The dominion of war
Subtitle: empire and liberty in North America, 1500-2000
By: Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton.
Contributors: Cayton, Andrew R. L. 1954-
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 520
Subjects: Imperialism -- History; Republicanism -- United States -- History; War and society -- United States -- History; National characteristics, American; United States -- History, Military; United States -- Territorial expansion; North America -- History, Military
Description: Presents a history of American wars as a pursuit of a policy of imperialism and conquest responsible for America's rise to global leadership, with American interventions in Vietnam and Iraq as extensions of that policy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-501) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a view in winter; title: 1. Champlain's legacy : the transformation of seventeenth-century North America; title: 2. Penn's bargain : the paradoxes of peaceable imperialism; title: 3. Washington's apprenticeship : imperial victory and collapse; title: 4. Washington's mission : the making of an imperial republic; title: 5. Jackson's vision : creating a populist empire; title: 6. Santa Anna's honor : continental counterpoint in republican Mexico; title: 7. Grant's duty : Imperial war and its consequences redux; title: 8. MacArthur's inheritance : liberty and empire in the age of intervention; title: 9. MacArthur's valedictory : lessons learned, lessons forgotten; title: Conclusion : Powell's promise.