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Daniel Immerwahr is an associate professor of history at Northwestern University and the author of Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development, which won the Organization of American Historians' Merle Curti Award. He has written for Slate, n+1, Dissent, and other publications.
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A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire
We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. 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. 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 globalization mean today, How to Hide an Empire is a major and compulsively readable work of history.
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有实无名的美利坚帝国黑历史，大赞！美国历史读得不多，对我来说新知识俯仰皆是。不但如此，既然是黑历史，意味着大部分内容在主流话语中是见不到的，所以个人觉得应当列入高中和大学美国史的必读/参考书目。
评分The history of the United States is the history of empire. 新罗马
评分5星推荐！！作者娓娓道来美利坚帝国历史：二战结束之前妥妥的colonial epmire，到二战结束之后的pointillist empire（pointillist原意是点描派，即名画大碗岛的星期天下午的画法）。第一部分给我补了补波多黎各和菲律宾群岛历史；第二部分则是作者综合多方面阐述美帝的“战后扩张”—化学合成材料、统一技术标准、英语独霸全球、还有日本西德英国等由美国战后驻军带来的经济文化腾飞（例：披头士和索尼）。就连最后的结论也都写得精彩：不是简单重述，而是看现在美国政坛里时不时出现的“帝国元素”。优秀的历史学家就是能把史料糅合出理论，优秀的作者更能把理论传达给普通大众。佩服！
评分The history of the United States is the history of empire. 新罗马
评分The author reveals a pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire. It changes the way that people think about American history and recasts American history as a history of the “Greater United States.”
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