Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago TribuneA Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff PickA pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empireWe 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.
Author(s): Daniel Immerwahr
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Year: 2020
Language: English
Commentary: History American studies
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Introduction: Looking Beyond the Logo Map
A Note on Language
Part I: The Colonial Empire
1. The Fall and Rise of Daniel Boone
2. Indian Country
3. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Guano but Were Afraid to Ask
4. Teddy Roosevelt’s Very Good Day
5. Empire State of Mind
6. Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom
7. Outside the Charmed Circle
8. White City
9. Doctors Without Borders
10. Fortress America
11. Warfare State
12. There Are Times When Men Have to Die
Part II: The Pointillist Empire
13. Kilroy Was Here
14. Decolonizing the United States
15. Nobody Knows in America, Puerto Rico’s in America
16. Synthetica
17. This Is What God Hath Wrought
18. The Empire of the Red Octagon
19. Language Is a Virus
20. Power Is Sovereignty, Mister Bond
21. Baselandia
22. The War of Points
Conclusion: Enduring Empire
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Illustration Credits
Also by Daniel Immerwahr
A Note About the Author
Newsletter Sign-up
Copyright
Copyright
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Chapter 1: ‘I’m thinking’ – Oh, but are you?
Chapter 2: Renegade perception
Chapter 3: The Pushbacker sting
Chapter 4: ‘Covid’: The calculated catastrophe
Chapter 5: There is no ‘virus’
Chapter 6: Sequence of deceit
Chapter 7: War on your mind
Chapter 8: ‘Reframing’ insanity
Chapter 9: We must have it? So what is it?
Chapter 10: Human 2.0
Chapter 11: Who controls the Cult?
Chapter 12: Escaping Wetiko
Postscript
Appendix: Cowan-Kaufman-Morell Statement on Virus Isolation
Bibliography
Index
Copyright
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Chapter 1: ‘I’m thinking’ – Oh, but are you?
Chapter 2: Renegade perception
Chapter 3: The Pushbacker sting
Chapter 4: ‘Covid’: The calculated catastrophe
Chapter 5: There is no ‘virus’
Chapter 6: Sequence of deceit
Chapter 7: War on your mind
Chapter 8: ‘Reframing’ insanity
Chapter 9: We must have it? So what is it?
Chapter 10: Human 2.0
Chapter 11: Who controls the Cult?
Chapter 12: Escaping Wetiko
Postscript
Appendix: Cowan-Kaufman-Morell Statement on Virus Isolation
Bibliography
Index
