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Roosevelt's Expansion And Peace
“In 1899, two years before assuming the presidency of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt published an article entitled, “Expansion and Peace" in the popular weekly political magazine the Independent. The article's title perfectly encapsulated Roosevelt's argument that Americans and Europeans needed to work together to guarantee world peace by expanding their civilization through imperial rule” (Walter 319).
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