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To: JEB who wrote (40274)	8/27/2002 12:59:38 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) of 281500

A super-power, yes, but not an empire. America has been an empire since at least World War I. I would put the beginnings of empire back to the late nineteenth century. The prescient Henry Adams began to muse on the history of empires during the Civil War, as the American empire began to take shape. I find this excerpt from The Education of Henry Adams, his analysis of the downfall of the Roman empire, to be remarkable. Tough sledding, but remarkable. globusz.com From Adams I came to understand that Gibbon, similarly, began The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as the British empire began to take shape. One doesn't need colonies to be an empire, although we do have a few (Puerto Rico, for example).

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