The following represents a partial list of academic-historical books on U. S. empire, published between January 2010 and April 2024. It is meant as a follow-up and supplement to the works footnoted in my 2011 article “Power and Connection: Imperial Histories of the United States in the World.”
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In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imperial conquest against the Philippine Republic. Over the next five decades, U.S. imperialists justified their colonial empire by crafting novel racial ideologies adapted to new realities of collaboration …