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The Russian conquest of the Caucasus
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ISBN: 1578985765 Year: 2006 Publisher: Mansfield Centre (Conn.) : Martino,

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The forbidden lands : colonial identity, frontier violence, and the persistence of Brazil's eastern Indians, 1750 - 1830.
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ISBN: 0804751803 Year: 2006 Publisher: Stanford Stanford university press

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Dominance by design : technological imperatives and America's civilizing mission
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ISBN: 0674020073 9780674020078 0674018672 9780674018679 9780674032163 0674032160 Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

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Long before the U.S. became a major force in global affairs, U.S. expansionists assumed a mandate to "civilize" non-Western peoples by demanding submission to American technological prowess and design. Adas pursues the history of this mission through America's foreign relations over nearly four centuries.

Dominance by design : technological imperatives and America's civilizing mission
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ISBN: 9780674018679 Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

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The belief that it is our right and destiny to remake foreign societies in our image has endured from the early decades of colonisation to our current crusade to implant American-style democracy in the Muslim Middle East.

Blood and thunder : an epic of the American West.
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ISBN: 0385507771 9780385507776 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York Doubleday

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Divergent visions, contested spaces : the early United States through the lens of travel.
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ISBN: 0415977088 9780415977081 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York Routledge

How the Incas built their heartland : state formation and the innovation of imperial strategies in the Sacred Valley, Peru
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ISBN: 9780472114788 0472114786 Year: 2006 Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,

American narcissism : the myth of national superiority
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ISBN: 9786611398101 1281398101 0875864694 9780875864693 9780875864679 0875864678 9780875864686 0875864686 9781281398109 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York : Algora Pub.,

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Nationalism is not unique to America: it was invented with the birth of modern nations. But nationalism is unique in America. Americans conceive themselves and their nation to be incontrovertibly superior to the other peoples and nations of the earth. When does national pride cross the invisible boundary that separates benign patriotism and malignant nationalism?. Historically, American notions of superiority spring from myths of the unique regenerative power of the new land; from visions of chosen-ness, mission and high destiny; from the indelible legends of frontier self-sufficiency; from th

The Athletic Crusade : Sport and American Cultural Imperialism
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ISBN: 1280465956 9786610465958 0803205406 9780803205406 9781280465956 0803222165 9780803222168 6610465959 Year: 2006 Publisher: Lincoln : Baltimore, Md. : University of Nebraska Press, Project MUSE,

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