"The United States replaced #colonisation with #globalisation" --Daniel Immerwahr 🇺🇲

Globalization is a fashionable word, and it's easy to speak of it in vague terms-to talk of increasingly better technologies drawing a disparate world together. But those new technologies didn't just crop up. Many were developed by the U.S. military in a short burst of time in the 1940s, with the goal of giving the United States a new relationship to territory. Dramatically, and in just a few years, the military built a world-spanning logistical network that was startling in how little it depended on colonies. It was also startling in how much it centered the world's trade, transport, and communication on one country, the United States.

The British weren't confused as to whether there was a British Empire. They had a holiday, Empire Day, to celebrate it. France didn't forget that Algeria was French. It is only the United States that has suffered from chronic confusion about its own borders.

The reason isn't hard to guess. The country perceives itself to be a republic, not an empire. It was born in an anti-imperialist revolt and has fought empires ever since, from Hitler's Thousand-Year Reich and the Japanese Empire to the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union. It even fights empires in its dreams. Star Wars, a saga that started with a rebellion against the Galactic Empire, is one of the highest-grossing film franchises of all time. --Daniel Immerwahr

Daniel Immerwahr is an American historian, professor, and associate department chair of History at Northwestern University. His book, How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States, was a national bestseller, one of the New York Times critic's top books of the year, and winner of the Robert H. Ferrell Prize. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Immerwahr

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