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Daniel Immerwahr
@dimmerwahr
Historian, Northwestern U. | Author: How to Hide an Empire. ON TWITTER BREAK
Jun 25, 2019 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Japanese internment in WWII is a major episode in U.S. history. But it wasn’t the only one, as the tweet below explains. The gov’t carried out multiple internments in its overseas territories. 1/ Shortly after the West Coast roundup, Japan invaded the western tip of Alaska. In response, the USA converted the Alaskan island chain extending out toward Asia into a war zone and interned the hundreds of Aleuts living on them in southern Alaska. 2/
Jun 11, 2019 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
While researching Jared Diamond’s new book, one thing I found startled me. Guns, Germs, and Steel starts when Diamond happening on man named Yali, who had “never been outside New Guinea,” on the beach. Yali’s question—why do whites have so much?—is what launches the book. 1/ It’s easy, seeing some of the images Diamond includes of New Guineans (his first one is below) and reading his talk of “modern ‘Stone Age’ peoples,” to assume Yali to be a random lowlander, innocent of the ways of the wider world. 2/
Jun 3, 2019 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Re-reading Enders Game. I hadn’t noticed, when I read it as a teenager, how obsessed it is with the U.S.-Japanese relationship. 1/ Image The enemies are the “buggers.” They hit Earth w/ a devastating surprise attack, expand their empire, and then are defeated by a new bomb, “Little Doctor,” dropped on their home planet, killing millions instantly. 2/
May 30, 2019 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
On Jared Diamond’s Godawful Upheaval: A History Professor’s Indisputably Correct Views 1/x I’ll start by saying there’s a lot to like about Diamond. He’s tackled tough topics and avoided the usual traps. Guns, Germs, and Steel: a blazingly erudite book with virtually no “characters” that got millions conversant in a non-racist explanation of European conquest. 2/
Apr 19, 2019 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
Comic books were extremely popular after WWII, and a bestselling title was Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories. It sold 3 million copies per issue by the mid 1950s. That was more than any other comic, the NYer, NatGeo, Time, or Newsweek. 1/ Plus, comics got passed along and reread at rates that easily outstripped other periodicals. 2/
Apr 17, 2019 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
The Second World War warped how the United States mapped the world, and the artist Richard Edes Harrison was right at the center of it. 1/ The attack on Pearl Harbor was many things, among them an object lesson in the perils of the Europe-centered Mercator projection. How could a country in the “Far East” have attacked Hawai‘i, on the western edge of the map? 2/