![]() ![]() ![]() It starts with the first settlers to North America, following the expansion of the U.S. ![]() It is not stated overtly as such, but in each historical episode, from each archival story, racism always plays a role, in the typical words about savages and lesser races needing to be civilized (at best) or simply to be done away with if recalcitrant (quite common!). The overall theme of the book as it explores the many different areas involved is that of racism. How to Hide an Empire is an intriguing read into a history that is only touched upon in passing if at all in mainstream presentations. It is a story of land, slavery, economics, the military, and technology leading to globalization of trade, transport, and communications, supported by a global network of military bases. It is “seeing a familiar history differently” from the perspective of what were and are considered territories or possessions. The Greater United States of the title is not just the contiguous states of the mainland plus insets for Alaska and Hawaii but includes many of the smaller – and not small – territories and possessions held by the U.S. ![]() Farrer, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2019.) (How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. ![]()
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