![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that. Oil remained the one exception to this new world order, a raw material that could not be synthetically reproduced and that “most reliably tempted politicians back into the old logic of empire” (276). In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. The technologies contributing to this decline in empire included skywave radio to screw threads, helping to produce the modern order in which “powerful countries project their influence through globalization rather than colonization” (264). had less overall need for raw materials, making it more advantageous to release its colonies. In addition to the challenges that increasing resistance from colonized peoples created, the U.S. was able to sacrifice its colonize and promote decolonization in part because of its increasing investment in synthetic materials. In Chapter 16, “Synthetica,” Immerwahr argues that the U.S. This section encompasses the sixteenth through eighteenth chapters of Part II: The Pointillist Empire. ![]()
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