How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr

|a 'We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. 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. 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.

|a Introduction: Looking beyond the logo map - Part I.

In the years after World War II, Immerwahr notes, the United States moved away from colonialism. 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. 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. 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. 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.

How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr