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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

This is the final installment in a four-part series with Dig's super guest, Z. Z. Rana,

re-examining the entirety of American history through alternating periods of conflict and quiescence around our liberal capitalist, imperialist constitutional order.

This is the history of how an avowed white Anglo-Settler colony, practicing the widespread

enslavement of black workers while expanding westward through the dispossession of

indigenous land transformed itself in the wake of the Spanish-American War and

World Wars 1 and 2 into a global empire that claimed its right to hegemony by virtue of its

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