TY  - BOOK
AU  - Immerwahr,Daniel
AU  - Immerwahr,Daniel
TI  - How to hide an empire: a short history of the greater United States
SN  - 9781784703912
U1  - 973 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London
PB  - Vintage
KW  - United States
KW  - Territories and possessions
KW  - History
KW  - Colonial question
KW  - kolonisering
KW  - kolonier
KW  - imperialisme
KW  - USA
KW  - Amerkia
KW  - historie
N1  - Først utgitt i 2019; Har bibliografi
N2  - A history of the United States' overseas possessions, from Puerto Rico to the Philippines and beyond, and what they reveal about the true meaning of American empire. This book 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 globalisation mean today, How to Hide an Empire is a major and compulsively readable work of history
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