Shows the connections between American foreign policy and the domestic culture from which it springs. This title investigates the national narratives that help to explain ethnic cleansing of Indians, nineteenth-century imperial thrusts in Mexico and the Philippines, the two World Wars, the Cold War, the Iraq War, and war on terror.

A provocative new view of the history of U.S. foreign policy, how it reflects our national identity, and why it so regularly involves the use of military force

In this major reconceptualization of the history of U.S. foreign policy,