Daniel Immerwahr

I am a scholar of U.S. and global history, specializing in empire, development, and the history of ideas. My last name is pronounced IM-mer-var and my Erdös number is 5.

Books:

How to Hide an Empire (FSG): A history of the United States that includes its territories. Starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly.

"It is brilliantly conceived, utterly original, and immensely entertaining--simultaneously vivid, sardonic, and deadly serious." - Andrew Bacevich

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Thinking Small (Harvard): A critical account of grassroots foreign aid. Winner of the Merle Curti Award in intellectual history and the Society for U.S. Intellectual History's book prize.

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Teaching:

• I've taught at Berkeley, Columbia, Northwestern, and San Quentin State Prison. My main teaching subjects are global history and U.S. foreign relations. Syllabi here.

Some articles and essays (full list here):

• "The Lethal Crescent: Where the Cold War Was Hot," The Nation
• "Privacy Settings," Dissent
• "The Moon Landing: Twilight of Empire," Modern American History
• "We're the Good Guys, Right?: On Marvel Movies," n+1
• "The Greater United States: Territory and Empire in U.S. History," Diplomatic History
• Debate over this lecture with Paul Kramer here (Kramer) and here
• "Growth vs. the Climate," Dissent
• "Polanyi in the United States: Peter Drucker, Karl Polanyi, and the Midcentury Critique of Economic Society," Journal of the History of Ideas
• "Caste or Colony?: Indianizing Race in the United States," Modern Intellectual History

Other stuff:

• My website The Books of the Century lists bestsellers, Book-of-the-Month Club selections, and other notable books for every year of the twentieth century.
• I made a grade calculator/roster that students can use to predict their grades and teachers can use to record and calculate course averages.
• And, finally, guano: