How to Hide an Empire 🇺🇸 A Short History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr

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• https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784703915 by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Immerwahr
• See screenshot excerpts from August 2023
• Alaska, Puerto Rico, Philippines see also Iraq, Afghanistan,
• https://github.com/dullhunk/kb/issues/763

Reviews

• The word “empire” has a distinct place in the American lexicon: readily applicable to other countries but rarely, if ever, to the United States itself. Greeks, Romans, Brits, French, Germans, Austrians, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Mughals, Egyptians, Japanese, Egyptians - everyone wants an empir. Everybody wants to to rule the world. Apart from a America.
• this book is utterly fascinating and captivating https://kara.reviews/how-to-hide-an-empire/
• While How to Hide an Empire’s portrait of the territories got me to think more broadly about the interplay between space and identity (or, rather, the making of Americanism with defined yet inaccurate borders), Immerwahr’s point about the evolution of empire — from colonialism and imperialism to globalization — is his most compelling point in my view. https://medium.com/@annastroinski/an-undergraduate-reviews-how-to-hide-an-empire-a-history-of-the-greater-united-states-by-daniel-af3a2d441bf5