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ISBN
0374172145
Book Title
How to Hide an Empire : a History of the Greater United States
Item Length
9.3in
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication Year
2019
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.6in
Author
Daniel Immerwahr
Genre
History
Topic
United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), United States / General
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
26.8 Oz
Number of Pages
528 Pages

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Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune A Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 - A 2019 NPR Staff Pick A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire 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.

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374172145
ISBN-13
9780374172145
eBay Product ID (ePID)
27038411429

Product Key Features

Book Title
How to Hide an Empire : a History of the Greater United States
Author
Daniel Immerwahr
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), United States / General
Publication Year
2019
Genre
History
Number of Pages
528 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1.6in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
26.8 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
F965.I46 2019
Reviews
"A richly detailed, thoroughly researched history . . . the author engagingly depicts the nations' conquests . . . Immerwahr animates the narrative with a lively cast of characters . . . A vivid recounting of imperial America's shameful past." --Kirkus (Starred Review), "A richly detailed, thoroughly researched history . . . the author engagingly depicts the nations' conquests . . . Immerwahr animates the narrative with a lively cast of characters . . . A vivid recounting of imperial America's shameful past." --Kirkus (Starred Review) "Consistently both startling and absorbing . . . Immerwahr vividly retells the early formation of the [United States], the consolidation of its overseas territory, and the postwar perfection of its 'pointillist' global empire, which extends influence through a vast constellation of tiny footprints." -- Harper's "There are many histories of American expansionism. How to Hide an Empire renders them all obsolete. It is brilliantly conceived, utterly original, and immensely entertaining -- simultaneously vivid, sardonic and deadly serious." --Andrew J. Bacevich, author of Twilight of the American Century " How to Hide an Empire is a breakthrough, for both Daniel Immerwahr and our collective understanding of America's role in the world. His narrative of the rise of our colonial empire outside North America, and then our surprising pivot from colonization to globalization after World War II, is enthralling in the telling -- and troubling for anyone pondering our nation's past and future. The result is a book for citizens and scholars alike." --Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal Age "This book changes our understanding of the fundamental character of the United States as a presence in world history. By focusing on the processes by which Americans acquired, controlled, and were affected by territory, Daniel Immerwahr shows that the United States was not just another 'empire,' but was a highly distinctive one the dimensions of which have been largely ignored." --David A. Hollinger, author of Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America "Historian Immerwahr argues in this substantial work that . . . for more than two centuries the U.S. has been . . . a kind of empire . . . made up of territories . . . barely acknowledged in popular conceptions of the country . . . This insightful, excellent book, with its new perspective on an element of American history that is almost totally excluded from mainstream education and knowledge, should be required reading for those on the mainland." -- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "President Jefferson imagined an 'Empire of Liberty' . . . [but] Immerwahr illustrates how American territorial expansion included control over and governance of millions of Spanish speakers and various Indian tribes who had to be forcefully subdued . . . a useful and informative work, since many of these overseas territories remain under our governance." -- Booklist
Copyright Date
2019
Lccn
2018-020388
Dewey Decimal
973
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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