In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Daniel Immerwahr is an associate professor of history at Northwestern University and the author of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United StatesThinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community DevelopmentDas heimliche Imperium: Die USA als moderne Kolonialmacht Enjoy a great reading experience when you buy the Kindle edition of this book. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Daniel Immerwahr, admittedly, wasn’t writing for an Asian audience. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like salt and pepper “sprinkled on practically every conceivable kind of apparatus.” Yet every such society encounters, early on, the vexing problem of incompatible screw threads.

So interesting that my husband actually welcomed my constant demands to listen as I read the best parts to him. How Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico the Philippines and Guam Helped Build America and the Way WeThink about Being American These were uninhabited, but someone needed to be there to mine the guano. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. I didn’t know that!’”At a glance, it looks like a dive into the history of American territorial ( And, as Professor Immerwahr stresses, the cruel history of racism and white supremacy looms large in this story of empire, as the inhabitants of our possessions have been treated as inferior and unworthy of full protection as citizens based on race and ethnicity.In an email exchange, Professor Immerwahr generously responded to questions on his new book and his work as a historian.What’s exasperating is that, despite all of this high-quality research, it’s still too easy for teachers, students, and even U.S. historians on the mainland to talk as if the United States were merely a collection of states.I got really interested in “Indian Country,” the federally delineated all-Indian zone established in the 1830s to contain removed Native Americans and Western groups who still held title over their land. The Philippines became independent in 1946—as the US began to distance itself from colonialism after the war.Now, residents of territories have only limited rights, and their status as US citizens has been misunderstood by many mainlanders, including the current president. Another way of looking at the evolution of the USA, a lot of it unknown to most. After “winning” this rich archipelago, the U.S. governed the Philippines as a colony. Even though it packs 400 pages of text (which might seem like a turnoff for non-academic readers), "How to Hide an Empire" is highly readable given Immerwhar's skills as a writer. Daniel Immerwahr is not an outwardly provocative guy. It’s a testament to Immerwahr’s considerable storytelling skills that I found myself riveted by his sections on Hoover’s quest for standardized screw threads, wondering what might happen next." A necessary and highly useful update. Books: How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (FSG), a national bestseller It’s not that “empire”, as a concept, is entirely alien: conventional wisdom, to be fair, usually acknowledges that the United States had at least a dalliance with empire, which was how the country ended up with the Philippines for just under a half-century. This book is an easy read, as the author makes each part of it interesting in a relatable way. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Welcome back.

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