By Daniel E. Bender,Jana K. Lipman

Millions of workers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, played the paintings of the USA empire. Forging an international economic system connecting the tropics to the commercial heart, staff harvested sugar, wiped clean lodge rooms, supplied sexual favors, and stuffed army ranks. putting operating women and men on the middle of the lengthy historical past of the U.S. empire, those essays supply new tales of empire that intersect with the “grand narratives” of diplomatic affairs on the nationwide and overseas degrees. Missile safety, chilly warfare showdowns, improvement politics, army strive against, tourism, and banana economics proportion anything in common—they all have exertions histories.  

 

This assortment demanding situations historians to think about the exertions that shaped, labored, faced, and rendered the U.S. empire obvious. The U.S. empire is a venture of worldwide hard work mobilization, coercive administration, army presence, and compelled cultural come across. jointly, the essays during this quantity realize the USA as a world imperial participant whose platforms of work mobilization and migration stretched from primary the USA to West Africa to the U.S. itself.

 

Workers also are the major actors during this quantity. Their tales are multi-vocal, as staff occasionally defied the U.S. empire’s rhetoric of civilization, peace, and balance and at different instances navigated its networks or benefited from its gains. Their stories show the gulf among the yank ‘denial of empire’ and the lived perform of administration, source exploitation, and armed forces exigency. while historians position hard work and dealing humans on the middle, empire seems as a primary dynamic of U.S. history.

 

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