| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 130.3

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The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500–2000. By Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton. (New York: Viking, 2005. xxiv, 520p. Illustrations, notes, index. $27.95.)

The Dominion of War is a timely and provocative work that reinterprets the course of American history through the lenses of war and empire and their uncertain relationship with Americans' changing notions of freedom. In this articulate and thoughtful book, historians Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton set out to remedy the myth of American exceptionalism by placing the quest for empire and war's unintended consequences at the heart of American history. This is not the tale of a peace-loving people who have made war reluctantly, only when it is "forced upon them by those who would destroy their freedom" (p. xiii). It is, rather, the story of a people and nation in which war, imperial aspirations, expansion, and their often-uneasy connection with freedom have always been central to the "grand narrative" (p. xii).

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