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Article: Anglospheres old and new.(A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900)(Book review)
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- April 16, 2007
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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900, by Andrew Roberts (HarperCollins, 752 pp., $35)
ON the very eve of the period with which Andrew Roberts deals in his splendid new history of the English-speaking peoples, the American Republic and the British Empire almost went to war with each other. The 1895 Venezuela crisis was deliberately provoked by the U.S. in order to assert its primacy in the Western Hemisphere. This strategic forcefulness was strongly supported by Congress, which appropriated funds for a 900,000-strong U.S. army, and by American public opinion. Forty-two governors offered to raise troops for the war. In the course of the dispute ...