"How to Hide an Empire" - A History of the Greater United States

"How to Hide an Empire" - A History of the Greater United States

March 5, 2019

Democracy Now!

EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM

"How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States." That's the title of a new book examining a part of the U.S. that is often overlooked: the nation's overseas territories from Puerto Rico to Guam, former territories like the Philippines, and its hundreds of military bases scattered across the globe.

We speak with the book's author, Daniel Immerwahr, who writes, "At various times, the INHABITANTS of the U.S. Empire have been SHOT, SHELLED, STARVED, INTERNED, DISPOSSESSED, TORTURED and EXPERIMENTED on.

The United States' Empire reached its territorial apogee at the end of World War II, when Washington claimed jurisdiction over more people living outside the states than inside them, only to relinquish most of its possessions shortly thereafter.

Yet, the imperial legacy of the U.S. persists and there is a good case to be made that the United States continues to be an empire to this day.

At the same time, Americans have usually seen themselves as anti-imperialist — fiercely dedicated to the principles of republicanism and democracy while diametrically opposed to empire and imperial rule. As Immerwahr shows in his book, imperialism and colonialism has always been part of the U.S. body politic.

What they haven't been, by and large, is seen." Daniel Immerwahr is an associate professor of history at Northwestern University.

Original: https://youtu.be/RvlUGYvLg0s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaKOOqXDnqA

https://www.amazon.com/How-Hide-Empire-History-Greater/dp/0374172145

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