Did you know that George Washington considered Daniel Boone a bandit? That during World War II the Japanese occupied part of Alaska? Or that Hawaii lived under martial law for three years? Have you ever heard of the National Screw Thread Commission? All these facts are part of Daniel Immerwahr’s fascinating history of American colonialism.
In How to Hide an Empire, the author recounts the circumstances which led Europeans to conquer not only the land they own today, but many territories beyond...