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Carregando... How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States (original: 2019; edição: 2020)de Daniel Immerwahr (Autor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Excellent, so much information I haven't been exposed to on such familiar topics. The US has acted as an empire for the entirety of its short existence, tho few Americans would call it that. A look at all the territories and countries we've had undue influence on, and how that's affected them. Most of it has to do with our oversized military presence literally everywhere. ( ) I walked a fine line between being fascinated by this book and being bored by it. Let me be clear: the fault wasn't with the book or the author. It's incredibly well researched, and at times astonishing, But it's also deeply political (as expected), and politics isn't one of my areas of interest. A book has to be truly outstanding to hold my interest when it deals so heavily with political machinations and maneuvers. Immerwahr is clearly quite passionate about the subject matter. The vignettes he shares are powerful and striking, but they're also lengthy and in-depth in a way that requires full engagement with the material. For that reason, I struggled to finish this one "Pointillist empire." There's a point in the middle of the book where Immerwahr transitions from Puerto Rico and the Phillipines to capitalism abroad. It seems to wander until you realize how badly foreign bases and the soft power of commercial and cultural dominance has resulted in so many own-goals in American foreign policy. Where colonial powers held land and conceded to independence movements, the US model held to strategic military and economic hooks that ultimately kindled insurrection via insurgency. The resulting terrorism hence is a direct and inevitable outcome of America's particular method of exerting imperial control across the globe. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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"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."--Provided by publisher. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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