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As a historian, I'm always delighted to read a book that shifts my perspective on history and that deeply changes what I thought I knew. This book details the ways the US had -- and made invisible -- an empire, both in the traditional sense of extracting resources from its territories and, after WW2, by establishing essentially a post-colonial empire through trade, technology, military bases, and language. There were wonderful, if sometimes sickening, vignettes here, as well as new insights into the relationship between US empire and the Beatles!
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 Statesā 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 āempire,ā exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territoriesāthe islands, atolls, and archipelagosāthis country has governed and inhabited?
In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating storyā¦
The dragons of Yuro have been hunted to extinction.
On a small, isolated island, in a reclusive forest, lives bandit leader Marani and her brother Jacks. With their outlaw band they rob from the rich to feed themselves, raiding carriages and dodging the occasional vindictiveā¦
Winner of the 2024 Hawthornden Prize Shortlisted for the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction Shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in 24 hours
"Ravishingly beautiful." ā Joshua Ferris, New York Times
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one ofā¦
