The Lie that Empire Tells Itself
Eric Foner: America’s bad wars, 19 May 2005
The Dominion of War: Empire and conflict in North America 1500-2000
by Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton.
Atlantic, 520 pp., £19.99, July 2005,1 903809 73 8 Show More
by Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton.
Atlantic, 520 pp., £19.99, July 2005,
“... and moral righteousness to make the world safe for democracy. Like Ferguson, Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton begin with the premise that the US has always been an empire. But in contrast to Ferguson’s brief, sanitised account of US history, which leaves the impression that the country’s territorial expansion on the North American continent took ... ”
