Dangerous Nation : America's Place in the World, from its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the 20th Century

540pp. Quarter bound in black cloth over red paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Outer edge untrimmed. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some minor shelf wear and chipping to edges, price unclipped. A heavy volume which may require an additional charge for overseas delivery. 8vo. Strips away the myth of America's isolationist tradition and reveals a more complicated reality: that Americans have been increasing their global power and influence steadily for the past four centuries. Even from the time of the Puritans, he reveals, America was no shining city up on a hill but an engine of commercial and territorial expansion that drove Native Americans, as well as French, Spanish, Russian, and ultimately even British power, from the North American continent.