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Chapter 1: Sixteenth century conquests and settlements
Chapter 2:The planting of colonies by Spain, Portugal, France, England, Holland and Sweden in the seventeenth century
Chapter 3: Fleeting English hegemony, human booty and the foundation of European racism in America
chapter 4: The making of a rogue empire: early beginnings
Chapter 5: American imperialism before the civil war: 1800-1850
Chapter 6: Freedom catches up with rhetoric: 1851-1875
Chapter 7: The foundations of economic hegemony without civil rights: 1876-1920
Chapter 8: The rise of the American juggernaut: 1921-1950
Chapter 9: The role of the US in the fall of communism: 1951-2000
Chapter 10: America's Afghanistan: Vietnam to Iraq: 1951-2006
Chapter 11: Asia's century and the fall of the American empire
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