![]() ![]() But, of course, those aren’t the borders of the country, and actually they’ve only been the borders of the country for three years of U.S. mainland, people outside of the United States-they think of the contiguous blob. So, when a lot of people think about the United States-people who live in the U.S. Why don’t you start with the title, How to Hide an Empire? How do you do it? And what A History of the Greater United States means?ĭANIEL IMMERWAHR: Yeah. Welcome to Democracy Now! It’s great to have you with us. Daniel Immerwahr is associate professor of history at Northwestern University in Chicago. ![]() What they haven’t been, by and large, is seen,” he writes. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured and experimented on. ![]() ![]() 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.ĪMY GOODMAN: Historian Daniel Immerwahr writes in his new book, “At various times, the inhabitants of the U.S. That’s the title of a stunning new book looking at a part of the U.S. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!,, The War and Peace Report. ![]()
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