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Hardcover The Dominion of War: Liberty and Empire in North America, 1500-2000 Book

ISBN: 0670033707

ISBN13: 9780670033706

The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000

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Book Overview

Americans often think of their nation?s history as a movement toward ever-greater democracy, equality, and freedom. Wars in this story are understood both as necessary to defend those values and as exceptions to the rule of peaceful progress. In The Dominion of War , historians Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton boldly reinterpret the development of the United States, arguing instead that war has played a leading role in shaping North America from the sixteenth century to the present. Anderson and Cayton bring their sweeping narrative to life by structuring it around the lives of eight men?Samuel de Champlain, William Penn, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Ulysses S. Grant, Douglas MacArthur, and Colin Powell. This approach enables them to describe great events in concrete terms and to illuminate critical connections between often-forgotten imperial conflicts, such as the Seven Years? War and the Mexican- American War, and better-known events such as the War of Independence and the Civil War. The result is a provocative, highly readable account of the ways in which republic and empire have coexisted in American history as two faces of the same coin. The Dominion of War recasts familiar triumphs as tragedies, proposes an unconventional set of turning points, and depicts imperialism and republicanism as inseparable influences in a pattern of development in which war and freedom have long been intertwined. It offers a new perspective on America?s attempts to define its role in the world at the dawn of the twenty-first century.

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Rated 5 stars
Classic

A monumental synthesis, a towering, brave work of beautifully written and exhaustively studied history - and this is all the reception it gets? This should be required reading for every American, precisely because it may be debatable or controversial in its points or selections. There is no question in my mind that this magnificent book will stand ever larger in history, as its profound yet caustic thesis receives its next...

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Rated 4 stars
Peace-loving USA forced into war? Maybe Not

Starting with the 1st French efforts to trade in North America, the authors argue that our self-image as peace-loving people who only fight when left no alternative, is often at odds with the facts. Second recurring theme is how military victories can produce unforeseen problems. Among the founding fathers, even those best disposed to the Indians, who wanted treaty-settlements instead of wars, assumed that they would either...

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Outstanding

A recurring theme noticed by the American expatriate community is the vast difference in how foreigners view America and how Americans view themselves, especially in regards to how America has dealt with other countries. In the realm of literature and history, there have been few works that have bridged this divide, and most of them dealt with narrow topics; such as US - Mexico relation, or US - Japan relations in the 20th...

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Rated 5 stars
A readable and very important book

As is well known, American leaders tend to justify wars by explaining them as operations in defense of liberty and democracy. This important book examines that notion through the impact of several historically key men on North America. They include Samuel de Champlain, whose missionizing and choosing up sides in various Indian wars set the stage for "the most widespread and destructive warfare in North American history";...

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Imperialism and ideology

This is a very insightful account of American history in the chord of imperial expansion, telling the story that doesn't quite appear in standard accounts. We are so habituated to the American narrative that we forget the terrible legacy of expansionism, and its endless betrayals and ethnic cleansing. One useful feature of the account is to start in the sixteenth century, and show the change that came over the relations of...

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