Imperialism and Expansionism in American History: A Social, Political and Cultural Encyclopedia and Document Collection Available to Purchase

Get your knife and fork out for another generous helping of US history. America’s appetite for books about itself is insatiable, and Magoc and Bernstein have certainly done their best to satisfy it. Their book is nothing if not ambitious. It covers a good deal of America’s foreign relations and all of its military ventures in one gulp – a heroic undertaking. The coverage is both home and foreign: it starts with the English colonists’ early dealings with the Algonquins and the Iroquois; then Polk’s disputes with the Mexicans and the British in the 1840s; then the Indian wars, the...