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Covering every major conflict since the Revolutionary War, the author of "America in the Twenties" explores how American society was shaped by war and how these conflicts were an integral part of America's technological development
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A non-academic history of America's wars and their relationship to the rise of American power. The military history is framed within an interesting context the apparent paradox of a stable, rhetorically peace-loving country shaping its society and its future through a series of national and international wars nine major wars in nine generations. Forty-eight pages of notes. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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