Lawfare Archive: Law, Policy and Empire with Daniel Immerwahr
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🗓️ 25 November 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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From May 2, 2020: Most of us don’t think of United States history as an imperial history, but the facts are there. The law and policy surrounding westward expansion, off-continent acquisitions, and a worldwide network of hundreds of bases reveal much about how and why the United States grew as it did.
Last month, David Priess spoke with Daniel Immerwahr, associate professor of history at Northwestern University and author of “How to Hide an Empire.” They talked about everything from what the Constitution says about lands west of the thirteen colonies, to the critical role of the Guano Islands in U.S. history, to the famous Insular Cases, to how military access agreements and long-term leases help the United States avoid a truly territorial empire.
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| 1:05.0 | I'm Will Appleton with an episode from the LawFair archive for November 25th, 2022. |
| 1:20.9 | Yesterday's Thanksgiving holiday was an opportunity for Americans to celebrate and give thanks. |
| 1:26.1 | The holiday also invokes a complicated imperialist chapter in US history. |
| 1:31.0 | For today's archive episode, I picked an episode from May 2020. |
| 1:35.8 | In the episode, David Priest sat down with Daniel Imervar, an associate professor of history |
| 1:40.6 | at Northwestern University to discuss the United States Imperial history. |
| 1:45.5 | Priest and Imervar spoke about the famous Insular cases, with the Constitution has to |
| 1:49.7 | say about lands west of the original 13 colonies, the role of the Guano Islands in US history |
| 1:55.4 | and more. |
| 2:06.5 | I'm David Priest and this is the LawFair podcast, May 2nd, 2020. |
| 2:12.5 | Most of us don't think of United States history as an imperial history, but the facts are there. |
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