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100 1 _aReynolds, David,
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245 1 0 _aAmerica, empire of liberty :
_ba new history of the United States /
_cDavid Reynolds.
260 _aNew York :
_bBasic Books,
_cc2009.
300 _axvii, 563 pages :
_bmaps ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aNatives and Europeans -- Empire and liberties -- Independence and republicanism -- Liberty and security -- East and West -- Slave or free? -- North and South -- White and Black -- Capital and labor -- Reform and expansion -- War and peace -- From boom to bomb -- Red or dead? -- Rights and riots -- The impotence of omnipotence -- Détente and discontent -- Revolution and democracy -- Pride and prejudice.
520 _aIt was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great "empire of liberty." This paradoxical phrase may be the key to the American saga: How could the anti-empire of 1776 become the world's greatest superpower? And how did the country that offered unmatched liberty nevertheless found its prosperity on slavery and the dispossession of Native Americans? In this new single-volume history spanning the entire course of US history--from 1776 through the election of Barack Obama--historian David Reynolds explains how tensions between empire and liberty have often been resolved by faith--both the evangelical Protestantism that has energized American politics for centuries and the larger faith in American righteousness that has driven the country's expansion.--From publisher description.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory.
651 4 _aEstados Unidos
_xHistoria
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