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How to hide an empire : a history of the greater United States / Daniel Immerwahr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Immerwahr, Daniel, 1980- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- United States--Territories and possessions--History.
- United States.
- United States--Colonial question.
- Territorial expansion.
- Local Subjects:
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 516 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- History of the greater United States
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
- Summary:
- "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."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The fall and rise of Daniel Boone
- Indian Country
- Everything you always wanted to know about Guano but were afraid to ask
- Teddy Roosevelt's very good day
- Empire state of mind
- Shouting the battle cry of freedom
- Outside the charmed circle
- White city
- Doctors without borders
- Fortress America
- Warfare state
- There are times when men have to die
- Kilroy was here
- Decolonizing the United States
- Nobody knows in America, Puerto Rico's in America
- Synthetica
- This is what God hath wrought
- The empire of the red octagon
- Language is a virus
- Power is sovereignty, Mister Bond
- Baselandia
- The war of points.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 404-483) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles H. Maxson Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780374172145
- 0374172145
- OCLC:
- 1036104286
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