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| | Amazon.com: The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000: Books: Fred Anderson,Andrew Cayton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | The ensuing wars were justified as defensive in nature but were waged offensively and produced (with a few notable exceptions) the expansion of American power, initially across the continent, then throughout the hemisphere and ultimately around the world. |
 | | Rather than bringing "peace," American wars fought to advance the cause of freedom and dominion have generated a backwash of dissatisfaction and instability, inevitably leading to new wars fought at the urging of politicians promising that, this time, freedom will prevail and lasting peace be assured. |
 | | For example, the French and Indian War, which mid-18th-century Americans supported to ensure that the rights of Englishmen would prevail in North America, lit the fuse that soon culminated in revolutionary violence to overturn British rule, which was viewed by 1776 as arbitrary and illegitimate. |
| www.amazon.com /Dominion-War-Liberty-America-1500-2000/dp/0670033707 (2257 words) |
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