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The other image that is immediately associated with the US, something that is also immediately recognisable across the globe, is the ‘logo map’ of the nation. Part of its goal is to show how precisely how US imperialism has been made to be more cost-effective and also more invisible.
It even made me actually laugh out loud a few times: Standards—the protocols by which objects and processes are coordinated—are admittedly one of the most stultifying topics known to humankind.I knew about Puerto Rico being a territory (still) and Puerto Ricans being citizens but I never knew about the Philippines. There would be “no joint occupation with the insurgents,” and the Filipinos “must recognize the military occupation and authority of the United States. In How to Hide an Empire , Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States.
Immerwahr is undoubtedly keen to expose the brutal impact on the oft-forgotten territories, to tell the real stories of the people affected, but he also refers to the developments made possible by empire and war. March 2019) and he seeks to redress that by collecting together extensive archival evidence, anecdotes and work done by previous historians and presenting the US “differently than I had had it presented” (ibid). And by doing so, he helps us better understand American foreign and military policy in the present—and the future . An easily condensed version would make excellent supplemental reading for classes in such disciplines as United States History, International Relations, Political Science and Constitutional Law.The Shawnees who lived there had carefully culled the area’s trees, letting the grass grow high and the herbivores graze. Under Lund’s less than entirely watchful eye, squatters took up residence on Washington’s western holdings (not the Kentucky claims, but others farther north). Their opposition, he complained to Jefferson, had “become too open, violent and serious to be longer winked at. At time witty, but more often quite strident this book offers a quick trip through the intricacies and ironies of America's policies toward the land and countries it has occupied over the centuries.