How to hide an empire : a history of the greater United States / Daniel Immerwahr.
Immerwahr, Daniel, 1980- author.
2019
F965 .I46 2019 (Mapit)
On loan from General Collection, due 31. Dec 2023

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Title How to hide an empire : a history of the greater United States / Daniel Immerwahr.
Author Immerwahr, Daniel, 1980- author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9780374172145 (hardcover)
0374172145 (hardcover)
Published New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Language English
Description viii, 516 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Call Number F965 .I46 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 973
325.373
Summary "We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories--the islands, atolls, and archipelagos--this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light. We travel to the Guano Islands, where prospectors collected one of the nineteenth century's most valuable commodities, and the Philippines, site of the most destructive event on U.S. soil. In Puerto Rico, Immerwahr shows how U.S. doctors conducted grisly experiments they would never have conducted on the mainland and charts the emergence of independence fighters who would shoot up the U.S. Congress. In the years after World War II, Immerwahr notes, the United States moved away from colonialism. Instead, it put innovations in electronics, transportation, and culture to use, devising a new sort of influence that did not require the control of colonies. Rich with absorbing vignettes, full of surprises, and driven by an original conception of what empire and globalization mean today, How to Hide an Empire is a major and compulsively readable work of history."--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 404-483) and index.
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Introduction: Looking beyond the logo map
Part I. The Colonial empire. The fall and rise of Daniel Boone
Indian Country
Everything you always wanted to know about Guano but were afraid to ask
Teddy Roosevelt's very good day
Empire state of mind
Shouting the battle cry of freedom
Outside the charmed circle
White city
Doctors without borders
Fortress America
Warfare state
There are times when men have to die
Part II. The pointillist empire. Kilroy was here
Decolonizing the United States
Nobody knows in America, Puerto Rico's in America
Synthetica
This is what God hath wrought
The empire of the red octagon
Language is a virus
Power is sovereignty, Mister Bond
Baselandia
The war of points
Conclusion: Enduring empire.

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