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