6/11/2023 0 Comments How to hide an empire review![]() In Puerto Rico, Immerwahr shows how US doctors conducted grisly experiments they wouldn’t have attempted on the mainland and he shows how, after the Second World War, the US moved away from colonialism in the European tradition, instead devising a new sort of influence that did not require the control of colonies. We travel to the Guano Islands, the home of one of the nineteenth century’s most valuable commodities, and the Philippines, site of the most destructive event on US soil. 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? ![]() It has dropped bombs, staged coups, meddled in foreign elections, aided dictators, and ‘Cocacolonized’ the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() For a country that outwardly denies any imperial conquest, the United States owns a lot of foreign territory.īeneath its anti-expansionist rhetoric, the US has quietly created an informal empire. ![]()
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