The United States’s history, according to dimmerwahr’s lively new book, is a history of empire
Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 528 pages; $30. Bodley Head; £25.was born out of rebellion against imperial power. Yet it then amassed more of an empire than is commonly realised, including by Americans. Indeed the country’s history, according to Daniel Immerwahr’s lively new book, is a history of empire.Grasping that history means looking beyond today’s “logo map” of America, as Mr Immerwahr, a historian at Northwestern University, calls the country’s core.
At the end of that war the Greater United States contains some 135m people outside the mainland, more than the 132m living in the core country itself. However, except for a brief period of enthusiasm for empire around the turn of the 20th century, the country’s imperial reach is played down by its politicians. Unlike London, Washington is not festooned with grand offices to run the colonies.
Why the retreat? Projecting power no longer requires going to the trouble of holding large amounts of land, often against the will of the local population. Instead, globalisation replaces colonisation. Thanks to aviation, logistical mastery and other world-shrinking innovations, America can substitute technology for territory.
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