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Democracyinkind

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1. Always been an empire.

Reply to Taverner (Original post)

Tue Jun 25, 2013, 04:02 PM

Jun 2013

"Empire of Liberty" is the title of the most-respected historic overview of Early America.

There's lots of shades empire. Not all of them are equally bad for all people. The early empire was quite nice if you were born under the right circumstances.

It depends on what definition of "Empire" you use. If you stick to a narrow definition around "world dominance", I'd say 1917. If you use a legalistic approach, I'd argue that the correct date is 1948.

Lots of room for differing interpretations here.

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