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: A History of the Greater United States (FSG), a national bestseller, New York Times critics' top books of 2019 title, and winner of the Robert H. Ferrell Prize
"Wry, readable, and often astonishing." - New York Times
"Wry, readable, and often astonishing." - New York Times
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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 (more here):
- Did George Washington Burn New York? The Atlantic
- Are We Really Prisoners of Geography? The Guardian
- Wielding Wheat: A New History Makes the Case for the World-Ordering Power of Wheat, New York Review of Books
- Forgetting the Apocalypse: Why Our Nuclear Fears Have Faded and Why That's Dangerous, The Guardian
- Change the Map, Change the Moral: A New History of World War II, The Atlantic
- A Deranged Pyroscape: How Fires Across the World Have Grown Weirder, The Guardian
- The Quileute Dune: Frank Herbert, Indigeneity, and Empire, Journal of American Studies
- The Strange, Sad Death of America's Political Imagination, New York Times
- The Paleo Con: The Myth of a Carefree Prehistoric Lifestyle, The New Republic
- History Isn't Just for Patriots, Washington Post
- Should America Still Police the World? The New Yorker
- Fort Everywhere: How Did the United States Get Entangled in a Cycle of Endless War? The Nation
- Ten-Cent Ideology: Donald Duck Comics and U.S. Global Hegemony, Modern American History
- The Center Does Not Hold: Jill Lepore's Awkward Embrace of the Nation, The Nation
- All Over the Map: Jared Diamond Struggles to Understand a Connected World, The New Republic
- How the US Has Hidden Its Empire, The Guardian
- The Lethal Crescent: Where the Cold War Was Hot, The Nation
- The Greater United States: Territory and Empire in U.S. History, Diplomatic History
- 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:
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