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Article Title

The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America

Authors

Robert E. May

Abstract

THE MONROE DOCTRINE AND AMERICA’S NATIONAL HISTORY

Even before American defeat in Vietnam helped to shatter myths of U.S. innocence abroad, scholars exposed U.S. imperial ideologies and behaviors starting with the nation’s founding, if not its colonial antecedents. In recent years, a fl....