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The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000.(Book review)
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Bateman, Robert L.
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The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000. By Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton. New York: Penguin, 2005. 520 pages. $27.95. Reviewed by Major Robert L. Bateman, currently assigned to the Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq.
In The Dominion of War, historians Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton set out to recast how we understand the history of North America and the peoples who have lived here over the course of the past five centuries. The...
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