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

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Immerwahr is Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University, where he focuses on US and global history. He is the author of How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States , which won the Robert H. Ferrell Prize and was a New York Times' critics best book of the year, and 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 The New Yorker , Atlantic , n+1 , Slate , Dissent , and other publications. Klappentext The idea of the United States as a contained territory is cast into dispute in this assessment of the geographical spread of American imperialism. Noel Malcolm of the "Sunday Telegraph" praised the book's capacity for 'striking and unusual connections'. Zusammenfassung A provocative and absorbing history of the United States' New York TimesThe United States denies having dreams of empire. We know America has spread its money, language and culture across the world, but we still think of it as a contained territory, framed by Canada above, Mexico below, and oceans either side.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Immerwahr, Immerwahr Daniel
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781784703912
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-391-2
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Globalization, Northwest Territories, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Geopolitics, Colonialism & imperialism, United States of America, USA, Empires & historical states, Political Geography, Colonialism and imperialism, Historical states and empires: Americas