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1. www.degruyter.com › document › doiEmpire for Liberty - De Gruyter

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   Apr 5, 2010 · In this penetrating, lively account that introduces readers to diplomatic history in a most painless way, Immerman offers case studies of six public figures whose choices affected the ever-increasing power of the U.S. Empire for Liberty deserves a wide audience of students, scholars, and even general readers.

2. academic.oup.com › jah › article-abstractEmpire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from ...

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   Jun 1, 2011 · Immerman's approach is to identify six major figures whose lives span the history of the United States, some of whom we may not necessarily associate as leading architects of American empire, and to survey the history of American foreign relations through them.

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   Apr 5, 2010 · Taking readers from the founding of the republic to the Global War on Terror, Immerman shows how each individual's influence arose from a keen sensitivity to the concerns of his times; how the...

4. www.foreignaffairs.com › reviews › review-essayEmpire Without End - Foreign Affairs

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   Jul 1, 2010 · Immerman's brief study of six important architects of U.S. foreign policy argues that the idea of empire was inherent in the United States' national aspirations from the beginning. Restlessly articulated in terms of national ideals, the project was a thrust for a large national domain, not merely of liberty but also for liberty; indeed ...

5. academic.oup.com › dh › articleThe Greater United States: Territory and Empire in U.S. History

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   Apr 13, 2016 · The first arc in the history of the Greater United States, concerning western territories, is obviously central to any telling of U.S. history, and has been since at least Frederick Jackson Turner’s frontier thesis. But the second arc, concerning overseas territories, is regarded as less so.

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6. www.tandfonline.com › doi › fullApproaches to Understanding the Inaugural CIA Covert ...

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   May 20, 2011 · The Italian election of April 1948 represented the first occasion on which the CIA intervened to influence events abroad. Understanding of the operation has been shaped by three dissimilar approaches that have been critical, celebratory, and stressed continuity. These approaches have, in turn, fuelled a series of useful myths around the episode.

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   Sep 17, 2012 · The introduction sketches out Immerman’s aim, which is twofold: firstly, to show that “America is and always has been an empire” (p. 4), and secondly, to trace the different meanings that the notion of empire assumed over time and in what ways it changed.