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For a country that outwardly denies any imperial conquest, the United States owns a lot of foreign territory.Beneath its anti-expansionist rhetoric, the US has quietly created an informal empire. It has dropped bombs, staged coups, meddled in foreign elections, aided dictators, and ?Cocacolonized? 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, the home of one of the nineteenth century?s most valuable commodities, and the Philippines, site of the most destructive event on US soil. In Puerto Rico, Immerwahr shows how US doctors conducted grisly experiments they wouldn?t have attempted on the mainland and he shows how, after the Second World War, the US

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