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How to Hide an Empire

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by Daniel Immerwahr


  Gromyko, Andrei, 329

  Gruening, Dorothy, 227

  Gruening, Ernest, 158, 161–62, 171, 241, 247, 342, 352, 396; as Alaska governor, 168–69, 171, 178–80, 183, 227; in Anti-Imperialist League, 155–56; Division of Territories and Island Possessions headed by, 156–57, 168, 239, 244, 341; Puerto Rican independence legislation drafted by, 162, 245

  Guadalcanal, 199, 200, 219

  Guam, 9, 15, 18, 21–22, 113, 343, 394, 398; annexation of, 7, 17, 80, 155; citizenship for residents of, 86, 238, 245; English language in, 319; during Great Depression, 156, 158; on Greater United States map, 9, 75; Japanese bombing of, 4–6, 10; mainland indifference toward, 154, 159; nuclear weapons in, 352; population of, 11, 79, 262; racism toward people of, 12; University of, 387; U.S. bases on, 21, 72, 364, 387–89, 398–99; U.S. soldiers’ protest on, 233; in World War II, 169, 187, 195, 197, 201–203, 272, 405n

  guano, 49–57, 50, 63, 264, 339–42, 348; on islands claimed by United States, 51–56, 52, 55, 63–64, 78, 95, 112, 156, 340–42, 342, 344, 346, 352

  Guano Islands Act (1856), 51–53, 52, 55, 56

  Guantánamo Bay, 113–14, 218, 389–90, 394, 395

  Guatemala, 114, 347

  “Guerra Chiquita” (Cuba, 1879–80), 65

  guerrilla warfare, 65, 92–93, 97–99, 102, 231, 233, 237; during Japanese occupation of Philippines in World War II, 198, 203, 205–206; against Soviet Union in Afghanistan, 374

  Guimaras Island, 164, 436n

  Gulf War, 375–79, 376, 380, 381, 384

  Gullah, 467n

  Gunther, John, 243, 244

  Gutiérrez Igaravídez, Pedro, 137, 139, 141–42

  Haber, Clara, see Immerwahr, Clara

  Haber, Fritz, 57–58, 264, 266, 267, 339, 412n

  “Hail, Columbia,” 76

  “Hail to the Chief,” 76

  Haiti, 54, 55, 114, 117, 156

  Hammerstein, Oscar, 45

  Hannity, Sean, 398

  Hansell, John M., 426n

  Harding, Warren G., 220

  Harrisburg (Pennsylvania), 299

  Harrison, Benjamin, 55, 301

  Harrison, George, 358

  Harrison, Richard Edes, 172, 221–22, 222

  Harrison, William Henry, 59, 60

  Harvard Crimson, The, 110, 115, 424n

  Harvard University, 31, 60, 67, 68, 81, 156, 248, 321–22; foreign students at, 109, 119, 143, 145, 155, 244, 332

  Hatoyama, Yukio, 387

  Hawai‘i, 12, 15, 16, 17, 53, 113, 157, 249, 386; annexation of, 80, 229, 245; English language in, 320; on Greater United States map, 9, 9–10, 74, 75; Kamehameha Schools in, 341; mainland indifference toward, 82, 154; nuclear weapons in, 352; population of, 11, 80; statehood of, 8, 227, 229, 238–41, 245, 262, 387, 396; sugar plantations in, 158; University of, 175, 241; war plans for, 165, 166; during World War II, 169, 171, 173–77, 177, 179, 181–83, 185, 187, 188, 197, 200, 220 (see also Pearl Harbor, Japanese bombing of)

  H-bomb, see nuclear weapons

  Heathrow Airport, 329

  Hebrew, 326

  Hebrew University, 330

  Hemingway, Ernest, 44–45

  Hendrix, Jimi, 363

  Hersey, John, 224

  Heurlin, Magnus Colcord (“Rusty”), 184

  Hezbollah, 479n

  Hickok, Wild Bill, 35

  Himalayas, 285

  Hinckley, John, 261

  Hindi, 326, 330, 332

  Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 196

  Hiroshima, 215, 351, 354

  History of the American People, The (Wilson), 116

  Hitler, Adolf, 19, 143, 267–68, 283, 307, 337, 338

  Hoar, George Frisbie, 98

  Ho Chi Minh (Thanh, Nguyen Tat), 119–21, 230, 231, 426n

  Hoffmann-La Roche, 249

  Holborn, Hajo, 449n

  Hollandia, 200

  Holly, Buddy, 358, 368, 370

  Hollywood, 3, 194, 351

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 428n

  Holocaust, 268

  Holtom, Gerald, 356–57, 475n

  Honda, 362, 369

  Honda, Ishirō, 351

  Honduras, 114, 346–47

  Hong Kong, 65, 90, 197; Japanese attack on, 4, 6, 187, 189

  Honolulu (Hawai‘i), 173, 174, 174, 176, 177, 201; Provost Court of, 439n; U.S. soldiers’ protest in, 233

  Honolulu Advertiser, The, 397

  hookworm, 138–43, 190

  Hoover, Herbert, 220, 247, 296, 300–303, 301, 305–307, 310, 315, 321, 323, 335

  Hoover, J. Edgar, 148, 164, 256, 338, 471n

  Hoover, Lou, 321

  Hope, Bob, 357

  House of Representatives, U.S., 115, 160, 228, 241, 258–60, 395; Committee on Resources, 392, 393

  Howells, William Dean, 93–94

  Howland Island, 10, 18, 51, 53, 341–43, 342

  Hudson, Linda S., 409n

  Hughes, Langston, 231

  Hugo, Victor, 49

  Hukbalahap guerrilla army, 231, 237

  Human Rights Watch, 481n

  Hume, David, 33

  Hungary, 120

  Hunting Trips of a Ranchman (Roosevelt), 60

  Hurricane Harvey, 399

  Hurricane Irma, 399

  Hurricane Maria, 399

  Hussein, Saddam, 375–78

  Ibuka, Masaru, 365–67

  Iceland, 228

  Ickes, Harold, 168

  If Japan Can, Why Can’t We? (documentary), 370

  IG Farben, 268

  Igorot people, 125, 130

  “I Hear America Singing” (Whitman), 75

  Illinois, 39

  Immerwahr, Clara, 57–58, 412n

  Immerwahr, Max, 58

  immigration, 34, 82, 161, 224, 392

  imperialism, 7, 14, 63, 110–13, 134, 146, 157, 276; antagonism toward, see anti-imperialism; decline of, 196, 238, 263–64, 287, 344, 346, 373–74, 386; English language and, 320; of Theodore Roosevelt, 81, 110, 111, 115; U.S. soldiers’ protest against, 233–34; white supremacy and, 81–82, 103, 240–41; during World War II, 192, 197

  India, 63, 90, 129, 154, 155, 236, 276, 304; corridor between China and, 285–86; English language in, 325–26; independence of, 118, 120–21, 326; National Army of, 231; population of, 11; sterilization in, 251, 454n; U.S. soldiers’ protest in, 233

  Indiana, USS (battleship), 82

  Indian National Congress, 118

  Indians/Native Americans, 22, 30–32, 36–46, 77, 145, 154, 301, 393–96; in Alaska, 171, 173, 238, 395–96; Boone and, 26–28, 35; census of, 78–79, 183, 416nn; dispossession and removal of, 14, 38–43, 40, 43, 196; Europeanization of, 37; at Greater America Exposition, 82; languages of, 317–19, 323; recruited to Rough Riders, 68; Teddy Roosevelt’s views on settlers versus, 61–62; U.S. wars against, 91, 100, 106; see also specific polities

  Indochina, 119, 236

  Indonesia, 160, 197, 230, 236, 241, 270, 396

  industrialization, 48, 56–57, 62–63, 122, 197–98, 302–303; of Japan, 361–62, 365, 370–71; raw materials required for, 158–59, 264, 265, 267, 269, 275; of warfare, 206, 216, 269, 283, 306–307

  Industrial Revolution, 33, 63

  Influence of Sea Power on History, The (Mahan), 63–64, 413n

  infrastructure, 373, 374, 378, 388; military, 217–19, 486n; in territories, 169; in U.S. internment camps, 181

  Inouye, Daniel, 185–86, 241

  Insular Cases, 85–87, 103, 257

  Inter-African Bureau of Languages, 326

  Interior, U.S. Department of, 12, 155, 235; Division of Territories and Island Possessions, 156, 239, 244, 341; Fish and Wildlife Service, 180

  Interlingua, 329–30

  International Dog-Shoe-Face Incident, 90

  internationalists, 263, 329–30

  International Organization for Standardization (ISO), 310–11

  International Polity Club, 110

  Inughuit, 352

  Iran, 217, 220

  Iran-Contra affair, 399

  Iraq, 46, 216; Ku
wait invaded by, 375; Gulf War against, 375–79, 376

  Iraq War, 14, 383, 385–86

  Islamism, 374

  Island of Doctor Moreau, The (Wells), 336

  Island Records, 339

  Israel, 326, 330, 382

  Italian language, 318

  Italy, 46, 158, 220, 224, 396

  Iwabuchi Sanji, Adm., 204–205, 210

  Iwo Jima, 287, 345

  Jacinto, Gen. Emilio, 92

  Jackson, Andrew, 37, 39, 59

  Jakarta (Indonesia), 195

  Jamaica, 217, 249, 337, 338, 348

  James Bond books (Fleming), 336–40, 345, 347

  Jamestown Exposition, 133

  Jamestown settlement, 32, 34

  Japan, 90, 109, 121, 164–65, 249, 359–71, 391, 450n; distance from Aleutian Islands to, 168, 172; economic growth in, 364–68; during Great Depression, 158, 162; Manchuria invaded by, 159; naval academy of, 64; post–World War II occupation of, 17, 224–26, 228, 234, 345, 359–60, 365–67, 449n; radiation from Bikini nuclear test found in, 350–51; surrender of, 230; traffic signs in, 314; U.S. military bases in, 360–65, 387; in World War II, 3–7, 9, 10, 19, 169, 171, 175–84, 187–209, 211–12, 229, 235, 237, 264, 265, 271, 272, 283, 285–87, 287, 291, 315, 323, 349, 359, 442n, 444–45n; “zonification” in, Philippines by, 444n

  Japanese Americans, 151, 176, 181–82, 185

  Japan That Can Say No, The (Morita and Ishihara), 371

  Jarvis Islands, 51, 341

  Java coding language, 330

  Jay, John, 27

  Jayuya (Puerto Rico), 254

  Jeddah, 374, 375

  Jefferson, Thomas, 26, 28, 29, 31, 32, 34, 38, 61

  Jews, 373, 379

  jihad, 374, 381

  Jim Crow segregation, 86, 95, 119, 238, 240

  Jimenez de Syquia, Concepcion, 208–10

  Johns Hopkins University Medical School, 304

  Johnson, Andrew, 78

  Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 200, 263

  Johnson & Johnson, 249

  Johnston Island, 352

  Joint Chiefs of Staff, 290

  Jordan, 388

  Journal of American History, The, 259, 406n

  Journal of the American Medical Association, 329

  Juda, King of Bikini Marshallese, 349

  JVC, 328

  Kaho‘olawe (Hawai‘i), 345, 386

  Kalamazoo (Michigan), 12

  Kanakas, 53–54

  Kandahar (Afghanistan), 384

  Kansas, 396; territory of, 41–43

  Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), 41

  Karate Kid, The (movie), 186

  Katz, Jay, 146, 151

  Kawasaki, 369

  Kaws, 42

  Kearsage, USS (warship), 56

  Kennedy, Anthony, 389

  Kennedy, John F., 200, 262, 338, 471n

  Kentucky, 25–28, 299

  Kenya, 6, 325, 381, 397

  Kettle Hill, Battle of, 68–69

  Khobar (Saudi Arabia), 372

  Kichais, 42

  Kickapoos, 42

  Kim (Kipling), 94

  King, Ernest, 201

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., 240

  King, Walter W., 430n

  King Kong (movie), 351

  Kingston (Jamaica), 54, 337

  Kiowas, 42

  Kipling, Rudyard, 94, 95, 129, 194, 240

  Kirin brewery, 362

  Kiska (Aleutian Islands), 178, 202, 204

  Kissinger, Henry, 46, 276, 350

  Koo-wi-s-gu-wi, see John Ross

  Korea, 17, 63, 121, 230, 329; Harvard students from, 109; post–World War II occupation of, 17, 224, 234, 449n; U.S. soldiers’ protest in, 233

  Korean War, 14, 96, 225, 264, 269, 273, 361, 362

  Koza (Okinawa), 363

  Kroeber, Alfred L., 409n

  Kubrick, Stanley, 353

  Ku Klux Klan, 116–17

  Kunming (China), 285, 286

  Kurosawa, Akira, 351

  Kuwait, 46, 375–76

  Kwajalein, 199

  Kyan, Yukio, 363–64

  Kyrgyzstan, 387

  Lakotas, 100

  Lancaster, Burt, 3

  Lansing (Michigan), 370

  Lanteen Medical Laboratories, 249

  Lao Issara, 231

  Last of the Mohicans, The (Cooper), 35

  Latin, 318, 321, 367

  Latin America, 62, 157, 218–19, 266, 276, 329, 337; private invasions of republics of, 78; see also specific colonies, nations, and regions

  Laurel, Jose, 199

  Laurents, Arthur, 260

  League of Nations, 120, 145, 196

  Leatherstocking novels (Cooper), 35, 51

  Lebrón, Lolita, 258, 259

  Led Zeppelin, 363, 369

  Lenin, V. I., 117–18

  Lennon, John, 357–59, 368, 372

  Lennon, Julia, 358

  Leopold II, King of Belgium, 265

  Levi, Primo, 268

  Levittown (Puerto Rico), 260

  Lewinsky, Monica, 382

  Leyte (Philippines), 203

  Liberal Party, Puerto Rican, 145, 147

  Liberia, 109, 220, 314

  Library of Congress, 3

  Libya, 276, 385, 396

  Lies My Teacher Told Me (Loewen), 259

  Life magazine, 221, 243, 251

  Lincoln, Abraham, 59

  Little House on the Prairie (Wilder), 41–42, 154, 400

  Live and Let Die (movie), 340

  Liverpool (England), 199, 357–58, 369, 372

  Li Yang, 333

  Lobos Islands, 50–51

  Loewen, James, 259

  logistics, 200, 215–16, 224, 278, 282, 285, 301, 315, 361

  logo maps, 8, 8–19, 47, 74, 112, 179

  London, 224, 317, 327, 329, 332; antinuclear protest in, 356; standards coordinating committee in, 309

  London Times, The, 51

  Long, John D., 66–67

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 93–94

  Looking Backward (Bellamy), 122–25, 132

  Los Negros, 200

  Louisiana, 158, 377, 398

  Louisiana Purchase, 30–32, 38, 46, 77, 416n

  Luce, Clare Boothe, 223

  Lucky Dragon (fishing boat), 350–51

  Luftwaffe, 283

  Luna, Gen. Antonio, 92

  Luzon, 98, 101, 103, 104, 125, 189, 203

  MacArthur, Arthur, IV, 167

  MacArthur, Gen. Arthur, 92, 93, 96, 98, 164, 167, 188, 225, 280, 293, 436n

  MacArthur, Gen. Douglas, 92, 163, 206, 230–32, 237, 238, 291, 437n; Japanese bombing of Army Air Force unit of, 187–89, 442n; occupation of Japan commanded by, 224–25, 228, 359, 465n; personal attachment to Philippines of, 163–70; in World War II, 191–95, 198–205, 204, 208, 283, 287, 290, 293, 308

  MacArthur, Jean, 167

  MacLeish, Archibald, 223

  Mahan, Capt. Alfred Thayer, 63–64, 70, 73, 81, 157, 218, 280, 343, 413nn

  Maine, 317

  Maine, USS (warship), 65–66, 68, 69, 244

  malaria, 102, 130, 190, 279–81; drugs for treating, 274, 276, 291, 293

  Malay, 326, 332

  Malaya, 4, 6, 158, 197, 198, 216, 276, 288; People’s Anti-Japanese Army in, 231

  Malaysia, 270

  Malcolm X, 14

  Malta, 119, 220

  Malthus, Thomas, 33, 47

  Malthusianism, 57, 247

  Malvar, Gen. Miguel, 92

  Manchester, William, 442n

  Manchuria, 159, 195, 230

  Mandarin Chinese, 321, 333

  Manela, Erez, 425–26n

  Manifest Destiny, 81

  Manila, 3, 7, 13, 15, 16, 89–91, 98, 102, 115, 165, 181, 280; Battle of, 69, 72, 73, 188, 279, 446n; Great Fire in, 125, 126; rebuilding of, 124–30, 132–36, 428n; sack of, 235; Tagalog language of, 325; U.S. soldiers’ protest in, 232–34, 233; during World War II, 189, 197, 198, 203–12, 209, 211, 215

  Manila Calling (movie), 194

  Manila Hotel, 128, 167, 188
, 191, 195, 206

  Manus, 199, 200

  Man with the Golden Gun, The (movie), 340

  Mao Zedong, 121, 231, 326, 426n

  maps of United States, see Greater United States maps; logo maps

  March First Movement, 121

  Marianas, 9, 229

  Marine Corps, U.S., 113–14, 117, 148, 346–47, 363, 364, 387

  Marley, Bob, 339

  Marshall, Gen. George, 169, 201, 223, 232, 290

  Marshall Islands, 219, 314, 349–50; Republic of, 392, 394

  Marston, Maj. Marvin, 183–84, 184

  Martin, George, 357

  Maryland, 54

  Massachusetts, 33, 78, 239, 248

  massacres, 65, 121, 149, 242, 432n; in Philippines, 99, 99, 101, 106, 106–107, 112, 203

  Mayo, Katherine, 427n

  Mazda, 369

  McAuliffe, Dennis, Jr., 42

  McCain, John, 394–96, 401

  McCartney, Paul, 358, 359

  McCormick, Katharine Dexter, 248, 249

  McDonald’s restaurants, 14

  McKinley, William, 65–66, 76, 82, 98, 108, 113, 115; assassination of, 101; reelection of, 80, 93, 95, 96; during war with Spain, 67, 70, 73–74, 89, 90

  McLaughlin, Donal, 223

  McNutt, Paul, 235, 236

  Mead, Margaret, 155, 434n

  measles, 36

  medical experiments, 12, 124, 143–45, 151–52, 158, 247–49, 259, 274, 291, 350

  Medicare and Medicaid, 399

  Melville, Herman, 76

  Memorial Hospital (New York), 150, 152

  Mercator projection maps, 171, 221

  Merseyside (England), 357

  metric system, 305, 313–14, 466n

  Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), 59

  Mexican Americans, 195, 416n

  Mexican War, 14, 41, 46, 77, 196

  Mexico, 8, 114, 156, 220, 249, 258

  Mexico City, 76

  Miami (Florida), 322

  Miamis, 42

  Michigan, 39, 258, 370; University of, 81

  Micronesia, 17, 64, 72, 262, 283, 350; Federated States of, 314, 392; strategic trust territory in, see Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

  Middle East, 62, 120, 277, 347, 382–83; rebellion against empire in, 230; see also specific colonies, nations, and regions

  Midway Island, 4–7, 10, 389

  military bases, 72, 120, 216, 287, 396, 400, 413n; al-Qaeda, 374, 381; Japanese, 202; see also U.S. overseas bases

  Miller, Orville H., 90

  Mills, C. Wright, 246

  Mindanao, 103

  Misérables, Les (Hugo), 49

  missiles, 352–53, 375, 377, 379, 381–83, 398

  mission-style architecture, 126

  Mississippi River, 29, 31, 32, 38, 41, 94

  Missouri, USS (battleship), 230, 272

  Missouri Territory, 26

 

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