What did the US Empire Learn from Earlier Empires? Ft. Daniel Immer Wahr

Full Episode Link: https://youtu.be/7CL_8jnKBRk?si=S3dgqoeCM6-8ef-p Anirudh and Daniel talks about how the United States evolved into an empire, learning from past empires like the British and Roman. Initially a settler colonial empire displacing indigenous peoples, the US expanded its imperial reach by the late 19th century, acquiring territories such as the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Guam. They explores how the US, despite its anti-imperialist founding principles, sought to emulate British colonial practices, as exemplified by Rudyard Kipling's 'The White Man's Burden,' which offered imperialist guidance to the US. Anirudh and Daniel discuss the US's complex relationship with imperialism, highlighting its transition from a former colony to an empire aspiring to global dominance. 00:00 The Emergence of the US as an Empire: Learning from History 00:41 The Evolution of American Empire: From Settler Colonialism to Overseas Expansion 01:22 Imperial Lessons from the British: The United States' 20th Century Transformation Book Links: AnirudhSuri: The Great Tech Game by Anirudh Suri : https://amzn.eu/d/1Su38My How to Hide an Empire: https://amzn.eu/d/hssq9QF About Daniel Immerwahr: Daniel Immerwahr (Ph.D., Berkeley, 2011) is Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities. His first book, Thinking Small (Harvard, 2015), offers a critical account of grassroots development campaigns launched by the United States at home and abroad. It won the Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians and the Society for U.S. Intellectual History's annual book award. His second book, How to Hide an Empire (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), is a narrative history of the United States that brings its overseas territory into the story. It was a national bestseller, a New York Times critic's choice for one of the best books of 2019, and the winner of the Robert H. Ferrell Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Immerwahr's writings have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, the Washington Post, Harper's, The New Republic, The Nation, and the New York Review of Books, among other places. More information and many of Immerwahr's writings are available at his website (https://history.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core-faculty/daniel-immerwahr.html) #USHistory, #EmpiresPast, #ImperialLessons, #HistoricalInfluences, #EmpireLegacy, #RomanEmpire, #BritishEmpire, #USImperialIdentity, #ColonialHistory, #WhiteMansBurden, #ImperialAdvice, #EmpireBuilding, #PoliticalEvolution, #EmpiricalKnowledge, #LessonsLearned, #ImperialismToday, #ColonialLegacy, #EmpireStudies, #GlobalInfluence, #HistoryDiscussion