The history of America is characterised as one of expanding equality, democracy and freedom. Yet Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton contend that it is war, not liberty, that has fundamentally shaped thenUnited Statesninto the global superpower it is today.
The Dominion of War is a riveting account of war as the primary means by which the peoples of North America have defined social, cultural and political boundaries for the last half-millennium. From the forty-year-long cycle of imperial warfare and revolution that began at with the Seven Years’ War; to US involvement in the Second World War, Vietnam and both wars in Iraq, this book traces the birth and evolution of a surprisingly militaristic nation.
