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. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light. In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. But what about the actual territories-the islands, atolls, and archipelagos-this country has governed and inhabited?
And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an “empire,” exercising power around the world. We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago TribuneĪ Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff PickĪ pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire
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