Brownbag: Daniel Immerwahr on “How to Hide An Empire”

Robert Johnston | Posted on March 07, 2019

Join our Brownbag this Wednesday, March 13, 2019, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm.

Our Northwestern colleague Daniel Immerwahr will be here to talk about his new book, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. The book has been out barely more than two weeks but already has created quite a splash.

For a review of the book: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/books/review-how-to-hide-empire-daniel-immerwahr.html

For Immerwahr talking about the book on “Fresh Air”:

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/18/694700303/the-history-of-american-imperialism-from-bloody-conquest-to-bird-poop

 

And for the kind of puff piece, any historian (at least younger than 40) would die for https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-books-cb-how-to-hide-an-empire-0221-story.html

More substantively, see the quite bitter debate about Immerwahr’s ideas here:

Paul A. Kramer, “How Not to Write the History of U.S. Empire,” Diplomatic History 42(November 2018): 911-931

http://www.paulkrameronline.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/kramer-how-not-to-write-history-u.-s.-empire.pdf

and:

Immerwahr, “Writing the History of the Greater United States: A Reply to Paul Kramer,” Diplomatic History (forthcoming), available at https://academic.oup.com//dh/advance-article/doi/10.1093/dh/dhy101/5292579?guestAccessKey=63335178-d8ee-4760-89a8-1dff55fbdaa0