The dominion of war: empire and liberty in North America, 1500-2000

Introduction : a view in winter

1. Champlain's legacy : the transformation of seventeenth-century North America

2. Penn's bargain : the paradoxes of peaceable imperialism

3. Washington's apprenticeship : imperial victory and collapse

4. Washington's mission : the making of an imperial republic

5. Jackson's vision : creating a populist empire

6. Santa Anna's honor : continental counterpoint in republican Mexico

7. Grant's duty : Imperial war and its consequences redux

8. MacArthur's inheritance : liberty and empire in the age of intervention

9. MacArthur's valedictory : lessons learned, lessons forgotten

Conclusion : Powell's promise