| | Book #6 for the Chunkster Challenge
The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500–2000 (ISBN 0143036513)
by Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton
Anderson points out that historians and journalists tend to emphasize three wars of liberation – the American Revolution, the Civil War and World War II. Anderson and Cayton, however, argue that forgotten wars - the Seven Years War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War and the Spanish- American War – have had profound consequences for the shaping of the United States. They provocatively assert that, in Anderson’s words, “from the middle of the 18th century to the present, American wars have either expressed a certain kind of imperial ambition or have resulted directly from successes in previous imperial conflicts.”
Readers interested in Native Americans will learn from the examination of the changing balance of power between the Native bands and the Euro-settlers.
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