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How to Hide an Empire

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by Daniel Immerwahr


  Mitsubishi, 369, 370

  Mobil, 372

  Modern Language Institute, 334

  Modern Plastics, 273

  Modocs, 42

  Mojares, Resil, 421n

  Molina, Antonio, 199

  Mongolia, 332–33

  Monroe, James, 20

  Monsanto, 274

  Montana Territory, 7, 35

  Montgomery, Robert, 194, 195

  moon landing, 15, 263, 277

  Morales, Carlos, 114

  Morgan, J. P., 60

  Morita, Akio, 365–68, 371, 372, 477n

  Morocco, 220, 388

  Moros, 103–107, 110, 113, 195, 423n

  Morrison, Van, 369

  Morse, Samuel, 288

  Moses, Robert, 163–64

  Mother America (Romulo), 194

  mujahidin, 374, 383

  Munich (Germany), 297

  Muñoz Marín, Luis, 145, 147, 161–62, 244–47, 250–54, 256, 258, 260, 343, 399

  Münsterberg, Hugo, 110

  Muslims, 103, 104, 121, 373–75, 380

  mustard gas, 151–52, 248

  Myanmar, 314

  My Brother Americans (Romulo), 194

  “My Country ’Tis of Thee” (Smith), 76, 415n

  Nairobi (Kenya), 6

  Napoleon, Emperor of France, 31–32, 106, 336

  NASA, 263, 277

  Natchez, Le (Chateaubriand), 26

  Nation, The, 78, 155, 156, 244

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 263, 277

  National Air and Space Museum, 284–85

  National Archives, U.S., 235

  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 156

  National Bureau of Standards, U.S., 300, 302, 308

  National Cancer Institute, 350

  National City Bank, 147

  National Guard, 167; of Alaska, 184

  Nationalist Party: of Philippines, 159; of Puerto Rico, 145–48, 257, 258

  nationalists, 109, 112, 114, 118–21, 230, 343, 371; Filipino, 65, 97, 98, 100, 125, 159–62, 195; Japanese, 371; Puerto Rican, 16, 21, 145–49, 243, 247, 252–59, 426n; in Third World, 230, 326

  National Screw Thread Commission, U.S., 302

  Native Americans, see Indians/Native Americans

  Natividad, LisaLinda, 387

  Naval War College, 63

  Navarro Salanga, Alfrredo, 3

  Navassa Island, 54–56

  Navy, U.S., 70, 175, 235, 238, 319, 322, 394; nuclear weapon tests organized by, 349; overseas bases for, 120, 158, 345, 387; in World War II, 201–202, 205, 292, 338; see also names of ships

  Nazis, 185, 337–38

  NBC, 370

  Nebraska Territory, 41–43

  New Deal, 168, 169, 225, 246

  New England, 317; see also specific cities and states

  Newfoundland, 217, 220, 317

  New Guinea, 200, 219, 291, 314; Papua New Guinea, 292, 314

  New Jersey, 33, 143

  New Mexico, 5, 13, 68, 324, 348; annexation of, 77

  New Orleans, 32

  Newsweek, 178

  New York Academy of Medicine, 150

  New York City, 133–34, 145, 199, 222, 233, 244, 299, 331, 373; aristocracy of, 59–60; Japanese-owned property in, 370; 9/11 terrorist attack on, 6, 382–84; Puerto Ricans in, 251, 253, 254, 260, 261, 387; Robert Moses’s political power in, 163–64; Spanish-language newspaper in, 156; standards coordinating committee in, 309

  New York Daily News, 228

  New York Journal-American, 228

  New York State, 48, 260

  New York Times, The, 143, 154, 159, 255, 259, 332, 398

  New Zealand, 216

  Nez Perces, 42

  Ngugi, James (Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o), 325

  Nicaragua, 78, 114, 348

  Nigeria, 334

  Nikon, 362, 369

  Nimitz, Adm. Chester, 200, 287

  9/11 terrorist attacks, 6, 382–84, 388; report of commission on, 382, 479n

  1984 (Orwell), 355

  Nintendo, 369

  Nissan, 369

  nitrogen, 47–49, 57

  Nixon, Richard, 200, 276, 277, 350

  Nobel Prize, 58, 152, 238, 330

  Noriel, Gen. Mariano, 92

  Normandy invasion (D-Day), 224, 289, 290

  North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 311–12, 356

  North Carolina, 25, 37, 140, 299

  Northern Mariana Islands, 9, 18, 229, 391, 399; Commonwealth of, 391, 392–94

  North Korea, 314, 398

  Northwestern University, 81, 127

  Northwest Ordinance (1787), 30–31

  Northwest Territory, 30, 59

  Nostrand, Richard L., 416n

  nuclear weapons, 239, 264, 348–50, 352–54, 362, 474n; opposition to, 356, 358–59, 387

  Nue Spelling, 323

  Nukufetau, 219

  Nuremberg (Germany), 268

  O‘ahu (Hawai‘i), 3, 5, 6, 439

  Obama, Barack, 241, 335, 396–98, 401

  Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), 392

  Odawas, 42

  Office of Strategic Services, 223

  Ohio River, 29

  oil, 140, 158, 189, 197, 226, 267, 395, 460n; Middle Eastern, 216, 276–77, 372–73, 375, 376; synthetics made from, 266, 269, 271, 276

  Ojibwe, 22, 34

  Okinawa, 287, 345, 351, 360, 362–64, 380, 387–89

  Oklahoma, 38, 42, 68, 323; territory of, 44, 44–45

  Oklahoma! (Rodgers and Hammerstein), 15, 45, 261

  Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr., 134

  Omaha (Nebraska), 82

  “1 Wrld, 1 Langwij,” 323

  On the Waterfront (movie), 370

  Operation Desert Storm, 377–79

  Operation Infinite Reach, 381–82

  Oregon, 41, 77, 299

  Oregon, USS (warship), 66, 279

  Organization of African Unity, 326

  Orwell, George, 322, 355

  Osages, 42, 301, 321

  Osawa, Kiyoshi, 181–82

  Osmeña, Sergio, 235

  O’Sullivan, John L., 409n

  Ottoman Empire, 118

  Outer Space Treaty (1967), 263

  Outlook, The, 111

  overpopulation, 142–43, 146, 246, 247

  Owen, Robert Latham, 323–24, 324

  Oxford University, 64

  Pacific Fleet, U.S., 4

  pacifism, 109, 110, 112

  Packard, 307

  Page, Walter Hines, 140

  Pakistan, 334, 374, 385

  Palau, 314, 466n; Republic of, 392

  Palawan, 103

  Palestine, 217, 326

  Palin, Sarah, 395–96, 398, 401

  Palin, Todd, 395–96

  Palma, Jose, 133

  Palma, Rafael, 133

  Palomares (Spain), 354

  Panama, 114, 220, 356

  Panama Canal Zone, 11, 114, 280–82, 291, 293, 295, 389, 394, 395

  Pan-American Freedom League, 155–56

  Panasonic, 369

  Papua New Guinea, 292, 314

  Paris, 31–32, 44–45, 49, 70, 72; Treaty of, 10, 29

  Paris Peace Conference, 118–21, 145, 220

  Parsons, William E., 128, 132–34, 136, 167, 195

  Partido Popular Democrático (PPD), 244, 245, 251

  Patuxet, 317

  Pauquunaukit Wampanoag, 317

  Pawnees, 42

  Peace Corps, 327

  peace symbol, 356, 358, 475n

  Pearl Harbor (movie), 3

  Pearl Harbor, Japanese bombing of, 3–7, 10–13, 15, 171, 174, 181, 283, 323; simultaneous attacks at time of, 187, 405n

  Penn, Mark, 396–97

  Pennsylvania, 28, 260, 318; Academy of Fine Arts, 133; crash of 9/11 hijacked plane in, 382

  Pentagon, 375; 9/11 attack on, 6, 382–84

  People’s History of American Empire, A (Zinn), 13

  People’s History of the United States, A (Zinn), 13, 259<
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  Peorias, 42

  Pérez González, Carmen María, 456n

  Pershing, Gen. John J., 104–107, 113, 164, 189, 423n

  Persian Gulf, 477n; see also specific colonies and nations

  Peruvian guano, 49–53, 50, 57, 63, 264, 339

  Peshawar (Pakistan), 374

  petroleum, see oil

  Philadelphia, 33, 133, 299

  Philadelphische Zeitung, Die, 318

  Philbin, Patrick, 389

  Philippine General Hospital (Manila), 128

  Philippines, 7–12, 15, 16, 79–84, 124–36, 225, 276, 391, 428n; annexation of, 17, 73–74, 80, 90, 132; Army of Liberation of, 89, 91, 98, 108; citizenship of residents of, 82–84; demands for statehood of, 81–82; English language in, 154, 320, 325, 332; on Greater United States map, 9, 9, 12, 74, 75; impact on American products of climate of, 280, 293–94; independence of, 159–63, 199, 229, 230, 235–38, 245, 262, 344, 349, 386–87; Japanese bombing of, 4, 5, 10; laborers in United States from, 158–59; legislature of, 134, 135, 159, 160; MacArthur’s personal attachment to, 163–70; mainland indifference toward, 82, 154–56, 159, 260; National Council of Education in, 325–26; nuclear weapons in, 352; nursing in, 304–305, 369; population of, 11, 79, 125; rebellions in, 166, 231–33, 389; revolution in, 304; summer capital of, 124, 128–31, 131; supporters of statehood for, 228; Supreme Court of, 130; University of, 128, 133, 159; during war with Spain, 64–72, 88–89, 406n, 414n; during World War I, 289; during World War II, 178, 181–82, 187–99, 201–12, 204, 236, 272, 308, 340, 362, 405n, 442n, 444–45n; see also specific municipalities and regions

  Philippine War, 14, 89–108, 110, 112–14, 125, 132, 164, 196, 238, 418n

  Phillipson, Robert, 469n

  Pierce, Franklin, 51

  “Pike’s Peak” (Bates), 416n

  Pilar, Gen. Gregorio del, 92

  Pilgrims, 317–18

  Pincus, Gregory, 248, 249, 274, 454n

  Piñero, Jesús T., 246

  Pink Floyd, 369

  Pioneers, The (Cooper), 35

  Planned Parenthood, 156, 248

  plastic, 18, 271–74, 276, 283, 288, 294, 314

  Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), 86

  Pletnikoff, Simeon, 184

  plexiglass, 272

  Poindexter, Joseph, 174, 175

  poison gas, 58, 150, 267, 422n

  Poland, 46, 120, 154, 268, 270, 283, 297, 337

  Polynesians, 155

  Pomos, 422n

  Poncas, 42

  Ponce (Puerto Rico), 108–109, 137, 148–49, 242

  Popular Mechanics, 222

  population(s), 6, 21, 47, 104, 120, 123, 142, 144, 154, 163, 262; disease carrying, 102–103, 138–39, 143; excess, see overpopulation; growth of, 32–37, 39, 47, 57, 77; of Native Americans, decline in, 33–34, 36–38, 42, 44; of post–World War II occupations, 225, 226, 229; of Spanish colonies, 65, 79–80, 97–98, 103; statehood and, 30, 34, 44; of U.S. territories during World War II, 165–66, 175, 177–78, 181, 202, 206; see also censuses

  Potawatomis, 42

  Pound, Ezra, 322

  Powell, Colin, 375

  Predator drones, 384

  Prensa, La, 261

  Presley, Elvis, 369

  Pribilof Islands, 179, 180

  Princeton University, 68, 116

  Prix de Rome, 133

  Progressive Era, 124

  prostitution, 90, 102, 147, 281, 357, 359, 361, 393

  Public Roads, U.S. Bureau of, 313

  Puerto Rico, 7–8, 12, 15–17, 120, 220, 242–61, 387, 393–94; annexation of, 84, 108–109, 137, 143; chemical weapons tests on residents of, 151; citizenship of residents of, 86, 115–16, 392, 394; “commonwealth” status of, 17, 257, 262, 344–45, 392; constitution of, 257–58; demands for statehood of, 81–82; disease in, 137–42; Division of Territories and Island Possessions in charge of, 156–57, 168; English language in, 320, 328; governors of, 155, 253; on Greater United States map, 9, 9, 74, 75; hurricanes in, 137–38, 142, 399–400; independence movement in, 115, 118, 145–49, 161–62, 166, 245, 252, 253–54; industrialization of, 257–58; mainland indifference toward, 82, 156, 260; medical experiments in, 151–53, 242–43, 247–50, 259, 274, 350; migration to mainland from, 251–53, 260; National Guard of, 254; nationalism in, 16, 21, 154, 253–54, 256, 259; nuclear weapons in, 352; population of, 11, 79, 246; rebellion in, 16, 65; slums in, 243–45, 244; in Spanish Empire, 64–65; sterilization of women in, 250–51, 454n; sugar plantations in, 158, 256; supporters of statehood for, 87, 108, 227; University of, 147, 152, 249; during war with Spain, 69–72, 79–80, 110; during World War II, 173, 179, 243, 284, 433n

  Pulitzer Prize, 192

  Python coding language, 330

  Quakers, 301

  quality control, 362

  Quapaws, 42

  Quezon, Manuel, 125, 159–63, 163, 166, 167, 178, 191–93, 196, 235, 325–26, 332

  Quezon City (Philippines), 134

  Quincy, Josiah, 31

  Quirino, Elpidio, and family, 208–10, 209, 237

  Qutb, Sayyid, 121, 373

  QWERTY keyboard, 331

  Radio Free Europe, 297

  Radio Liberation (later Liberty), 297

  railroads, 41, 50, 204, 285, 377

  Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail (Roosevelt), 60

  Rand McNally, 12

  Rangoon (Burma), 189

  Rankin, Bill, 18

  Ready Reference Atlas of the World, 12

  Réard, Louis, 349

  reconcentration, 97, 100, 102–103, 105, 107, 198–99, 454n

  Recto, Claro, 203

  Red Cross, 304

  Reischauer, Edwin, 359

  rendition, extraordinary, 388–89, 480n, 481n

  Republican Party, 93, 101, 115, 239, 258, 393, 394, 398; Puerto Rican, 108

  Revolutionary War, 28, 93, 380

  Rhoads, Cornelius Packard (“Dusty”), 143–47, 149–53, 156, 158, 242–43, 247, 248, 252, 256, 293, 350, 433n

  Rhodes, Cecil, 63, 262

  Rhodesia, 348

  Ricarte, Gen. Artemio, 92, 199

  Richards, I. A., 322, 326

  Ridge, John, 38

  Riggs, E. Francis, 147–48, 161

  Riggs, Lynn, 44–45

  rinderpest, 102, 125

  Río Piedras (Puerto Rico), 249, 454n

  Rising Sun (Crichton), 370

  Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), 380

  Rizal, Jose, 65, 195–96, 428n

  Rock, John, 248

  Rockefeller, John D., 122, 140–41, 426n

  Rockefeller Center (New York), 370

  Rockefeller Foundation, 140–41, 146; Anemia Commission, 248; International Health Division, 143

  Rockefeller Institute, 150

  Rockies, 39

  Rodgers, Richard, 45

  Rolling Stones, 369

  Romania, 90

  Romantics, 26

  Rommel, F.M. Erwin, 216, 217

  Romulo, Carlos, 192, 194–96, 204, 238

  Rongerik Atoll, 349

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, 5, 324

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 163, 164, 220, 234, 247, 322–24, 326; colonies during administration of, 143, 155–57, 159, 161, 244, 341, 342; “Infamy” speech of, 3, 5, 5–7, 405n; during World War II, 150, 169, 171, 181, 190–93, 199, 201, 216, 218, 223–24, 237, 266, 283, 290, 305–306

  Roosevelt, Theodore (“Teddy” or “Thee”), 7, 59–73, 76, 93, 101, 157, 220, 315, 416n; as assistant secretary of the navy, 65–67; family background of, 59–60; foreign-language fluency of, 320–21, 335; frontier enthusiasm of, 59–63, 301; at Harvard, 109; imperialism of, 80, 81, 94, 111, 115, 413n; Panama Canal and, 114, 280; Philippine independence advocated by, 110; during Philippine War, 103–105; in war with Spain, 67–73, 83, 112, 279

  Root, Elihu, 60

  Rosin, Jacob, 274

  Ross, John, 37, 38

  Rough Riders, 67–71, 83, 88, 105, 279

  Roxas, Manuel, 237

  rubber, 73, 157–58, 169, 197, 231, 265–66, 302, 459n;
synthetic, 266–72, 270, 274–76

  Rumsfeld, Donald, 383–86

  Russia, 46, 62, 90, 331, 400; Bolshevik revolution in, 117

  Russian language, 320, 326, 333

  Rwanda, 334

  Sacs and Foxes, 42

  Saigon, 102

  St. Clair, Arthur, 30, 31

  St. Louis World’s Fair, 133

  Saipan, 287, 292, 391, 393, 395, 396

  Salute to the Marines (movie), 194

  Samar, 98–101

  Samoa, 80, 314; see also American Samoa

  Samoset, 317

  San Antonio (Texas), 194

  Sand Creek Massacre, 106, 422n

  San Francisco, 13, 82, 199, 222

  San Francisco Chronicle, 159

  Sanger, Margaret, 248

  San José Island, chemical weapons testing on, 151

  San Juan (Puerto Rico), 244, 251, 254; slum in, 243

  San Juan Heights, Battle of, 68–69, 73

  Santiago de Cuba, siege of, 69, 71

  Sanyo, 369

  Saudi Arabia, 276, 372–77, 379, 380, 382, 387, 479n

  Schwarzkopf, Gen. Norman, 375–78

  Science, 152

  Scotland, 130

  screw threads, standardization of, 18, 264, 302–303, 305, 309–11, 313–14, 318, 369

  Seabees, 219

  Sea Islands, 467n

  Searle Pharmaceuticals, 249, 383

  Seattle (Washington), 279, 337

  Second World War, see World War II

  Secret Service, 254

  segregation, 86, 116, 129, 135, 183, 240–41, 426n; of census, 12–13, 79; informational, between colonies and mainland, 152

  Sein y Sein, Francisco, 420n

  Selective Service, 426n

  Seminoles, 42

  Senate, U.S., 37, 77, 115, 239–41, 267, 392, 393, 395; Foreign Relations Committee, 219, 324; Indian Affairs Committee, 394; Intelligence Committee, 481n

  Senecas, 42

  Senegal, 220

  September 11 attacks, see 9/11 terrorist attacks

  Sequoyah (person), 37, 44, 323

  Sequoyah (proposed state), 44, 323

  settlers, see westward expansion

  Seward, William Henry, 41, 52

  sex work, see prostitution

  Shaw, George Bernard, 324

  Shawnees, 25, 28, 42

  Sherman tanks, 265

  Shimla (India), 129

  Siemens-Schuckert planes, 284

  Silliman University, 198

  Simon and Garfunkel, 370

  Singapore, 4, 90, 169, 189, 195, 197, 216, 246, 326, 332

  Sinhala, 326, 327, 332

  Sioux, 62

  Sirota, Beate, 225–26

  Skyfall (movie), 340

  slavery, 11, 37–38, 77–78, 103–105, 116, 125, 252, 334; westward expansion of, 26, 33, 41, 319

  Slim, Carlos, 337

 

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