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The Empire of Liberty is a theme developed first by Thomas Jefferson to identify the responsibility of the United States to spread freedom across the world. Jefferson saw the mission of the U.S. in terms of setting an example, expansion into western North America, and by intervention abroad. Major exponents of the theme have been James Monroe (and his Monroe Doctrine), Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk (who promoted Manifest Destiny), Abraham Lincoln (in the Gettysburg Address), Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson (and "Wilsonianism"), Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. In the history of U.S. foreign policy, the Empire of Liberty has provided motivation to fight the Spanish–American War (1898), World War I (1917-18), the later part of World War II (1941-45), the Cold War (1947–91) and the War on Terror (2001–present).
wilsonianism
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References
- See online source http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Empire_of_liberty
- Jefferson to Dr. Joseph Priestley, 29 January 1804
- Thomas Jefferson to Dr. Joseph Priestley, 29 January 1804
- Jefferson to William Ludlow, 6 September 1824
- Barbara Reeves-Ellington, Kathryn Kish Sklar and Connie A. Shemo, Competing Kingdoms: Women, Mission, Nation, and the American Protestant Empire, 1812–1960 (2010)
- Andrew Porter, The Imperial Horizons of British Protestant Missions, 1880–1914 (2003)
- Jean-Paul Wiest, Maryknoll in China: A History, 1918–1955 (1997) ISBN:0-87332-418-8
- Ian Tyrrell, Woman's World/Woman's Empire (University of North Carolina Press, 1999 ISBN:0-8078-1950-6)
- Ian Tyrrell, Reforming the World: The Creation of America's Moral Empire (Princeton University Press, 2010 ISBN:978-0-691-14521-1)
- Richard Pells, From Modernism to the Movies: The Globalization of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (2006)
- Another Leftist, Arno J. Mayer, once described the Roman Empire as a "tea party" in comparison to its American counterpart.Gabriele Zamparini; Lorenzo Meccoli (2003). "XXI CENTURY, Part 1: The Dawn". The Cat's Dream. 47:04. http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/xxid.html. "It [the American Empire] is an informal empire of the sort that, it seems to me, does not really have a precedent in history. I'm inclined to say that compared to the American Empire, even the Roman Empire may be said to have been something in the nature of a tea party."
- Chalmers A. Johnson, Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope (American Empire Project) (2010)
- Madelena Gonzales and Helene Laplace-Claverie, editors, Minority Theatre on the Global Stage: Challenging Paradigms from the Margins, 2012.
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