![]() 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. 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. In the years after World War II, Immerwahr notes, the United States moved away from colonialism. ![]() Immerwahr, however, points out key discrepancies with that story that open. Most Americans know its history, of a surprise attack on American soil that drew us, finally, into the Second World War. ![]() 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. How to Hide an Empire opens with a retelling of a pivotal moment in United States history: the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. 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. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light. ![]() In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. But what about the actual territories―the islands, atolls, and archipelagos―this country has governed and inhabited? And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an “empire,” exercising power around the world. We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. ![]()
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