Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2026-08-22
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 246
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. How the United States Built its Colonial Empire, Pt.
Mentioned: Imagined communities by Benedict Anderson, How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr, and Colonial Crucible by Alfred W. McCoy and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Imagined communities
Imagined communities by Benedict Anderson is a seminal work on nationalism that examines how nations are constructed through shared cultural narratives and collective identity.
Discussed“This is what historian Benedict Anderson calls the logo map in his seminal book, Imagined Communities.”
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How to Hide an Empire
How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr is a sweeping historical account that examines the overseas territories and greater expanse of the United States.
Discussed“So, to start, I should say that that kind of ideological game about the US logo map is almost wholeheartedly ripped from the beginning of Daniel Immoir's How to Hide an Empire.”
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Colonial Crucible
Discussed“So, how to hide an empire alongside Colonial Crucible, edited by Alfred W. McCoy and Francisco Ascarano, were monumental sources for these two podcast episodes that we're about to do.”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Fight Like Hell
“I'm a freelance journalist based in Philly, a third generation union member, an author of the books Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor, and it's Young Readers Edition, Fight to Win: Heroes of American Labor.”
Plugged Fight to Win!
“I'm a freelance journalist based in Philly, a third generation union member, an author of the books Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor, and it's Young Readers Edition, Fight to Win: Heroes of American Labor.”