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Acknowledgements | |
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Preface | |
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Introduction: American Ideology versus American Realities | |
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By the Sword We Seek Peace | |
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Microbes: The ally of rape, torture and conquest? | |
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Spaniards discover civilizations far more advanced than their own-except for 'guns, germs and steel' | |
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Faced with economic and social disruption at home, the British join the game of empire | |
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The Virgin Queen's colony | |
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A blood-soaked city on a hill | |
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Property and profit as the sign of God's favor | |
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The 'Spawn of Satan' | |
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The first all-out war | |
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French, Indians, Rebellion and Repression | |
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The first global war prefigures more global war | |
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Americans who wanted war now refuse to pay for it | |
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Those who made the greatest sacrifices are betrayed | |
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The new American elite taxes and forecloses on those without representation | |
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An Empire for Liberty? | |
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Creating an enemy to thwart the Bill of Rights | |
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Many trails of tears | |
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Land hunger provokes an unnecessary war | |
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Laying claim to the hemisphere | |
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'Anglo-Saxonism' and the march to the Pacific | |
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To the halls of Montezuma | |
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From Ashes to Empire | |
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Not fighting to free slaves | |
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The compromise of 1877: Selling the freedmen out | |
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Massacres in the west | |
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Industrialism renewed and the ascension of finance | |
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Cycles of boom and bust produce political instability | |
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Class war intensifies | |
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To contain the revolt of the masses and restore profitability, the plutocrats opt for empire | |
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The Monroe Doctrine enforced | |
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The ideology of expansion | |
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War with Spain, then Another and Another | |
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As a pretext for war, Spain is declared a threat to American security | |
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The press reveals its racism and lust for empire | |
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Cubans on verge of winning independence on their own alarm Washington | |
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World War I: Making the World Safe for American Capital Investment | |
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Germany's potential dominance in Europe a threat to the Open Door | |
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The standard interpretation of American entry is superficial | |
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Britain violates American neutrality but Wilson does nothing | |
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Though its blockade damages the American economy the House of Morgan invests in Britain | |
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Wilson's neutrality a charade | |
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Wilson positions himself to be global messiah | |
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Bolsheviks take Russia out of the war and pose a new threat to the Open Door | |
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American entry tips the balance though Germany is not militarily defeated | |
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Wilson's peace plan fails but the US becomes the global finance capital | |
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A war against democracy at home | |
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A world made safe only for more war | |
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Pearl Harbor: The Spark but not the Cause | |
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Day of infamy-or deception? | |
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Japan's empire threatens western colonialism | |
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Admiral Richardson warns FDR that his measures threaten war | |
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American military officials long understood that Pearl Harbor was vulnerable to surprise attack | |
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Electronic intercepts and radio direction finders indicate Japan's intent | |
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Philippines left vulnerable | |
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Neither Germany nor Japan capable of attacking the continental US | |
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If the Axis posed no military threat to the US what was the real worry? | |
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America and the Holocaust: Not rescuing Jews | |
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The atomic bombings: To save lives or to intimidate communists? | |
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Downfall | |
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Cold War: The Clash of Ideology or of Empires? | |
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Soviets indispensable to defeat of Hitler | |
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Yesterday's essential ally becomes the new threat | |
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The atomic arms race begins | |
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Soviets withdraw voluntarily from conquered areas | |
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Capitalism and communism vie for the loyalties of the defeated empires' colonies | |
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The threat of a closed world remains: Germany becomes a new axis | |
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Control of oil becomes the linchpin of American policy | |
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The 'Martial Plan' | |
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The future of Germany further polarizes the Cold War | |
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Building the permanent war economy | |
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Losing China to the Chinese | |
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Cold War/Hot War: Savage Wars of Peace? | |
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Creating the warfare state | |
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Korea | |
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Vietnam | |
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The Middle East and the cold War | |
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War on Terror | |
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A new American century? | |
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Giving the Soviet Union its Vietnam War | |
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Terrorists as 'freedom fighters' | |
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Terrorizing Iraqi civilians | |
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Abandoning Afghanistan to warlords and the rise of the Taliban and Al Qaeda | |
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Demonizing Iraq for the events of 9/11 to foster hysteria at home | |
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The real reasons the US invaded Iraq | |
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The prize | |
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Co-opting the Russian and Chinese backyards | |
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Conclusion | |
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Notes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |