Island Possessions of the United States
Author : Albert Edward McKinley
Publisher : Philadelphia : [s.n.
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 16,90 MB
Release : 1907
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : Albert Edward McKinley
Publisher : Philadelphia : [s.n.
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 16,90 MB
Release : 1907
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : Daniel Immerwahr
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,13 MB
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0374715122
Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune A Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff Pick A pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire 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.
Author : Albert Edward MacKinley
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 28,70 MB
Release : 1907
Category :
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Author : Guy Carleton Lee
Publisher :
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 24,1 MB
Release : 1907
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : John F. Grabowski
Publisher : Chelsea House
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,34 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791010532
Discusses the geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of American Samoa, Guam, North Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Author : Guy Carleton Lee
Publisher :
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 21,49 MB
Release : 1907
Category : North America
ISBN :
Author : Doug Mack
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 30,92 MB
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0393247619
“To truly understand the United States, one must understand The Not-Quite States of America.” —Mark Stein, best-selling author of How the States Got Their Shapes Everyone knows that America is 50 states and… some other stuff. The U.S. territories—American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands—and their 4 million people are little known and often forgotten, so Doug Mack set out on a 30,000-mile journey to learn about them. How did they come to be part of the United States? What are they like today? And why aren’t they states? Deeply researched and richly reported, The Not-Quite States of America is an entertaining and unprecedented account of the territories’ crucial yet overlooked place in the American story.
Author : United States. Work Projects Administration (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,10 MB
Release : 1937
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : United States. Division of Territories and Island Possessions
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,20 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Executive departments
ISBN :
Author : Albert Edward MacKinley
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,77 MB
Release : 1907
Category :
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