Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-501) and index.
Contents
Introduction : a view in winter -- 1. Champlain's legacy : the transformation of seventeenth-century North America -- 2. Penn's bargain : the paradoxes of peaceable imperialism -- 3. Washington's apprenticeship : imperial victory and collapse -- 4. Washington's mission : the making of an imperial republic -- 5. Jackson's vision : creating a populist empire -- 6. Santa Anna's honor : continental counterpoint in republican Mexico -- 7. Grant's duty : Imperial war and its consequences redux -- 8. MacArthur's inheritance : liberty and empire in the age of intervention -- 9. MacArthur's valedictory : lessons learned, lessons forgotten -- Conclusion : Powell's promise
Summary
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.
