Shoutout Greg Grandin, who is a fantastic historian of US empire, whose hits include Fordlandia (about how Ford setup a rubber plant and factory in the Amazon rainforest, exposing how simultaneously terrible and hilarious American imperalism was—they did shit like build a giant golf course inside the Amazon that was subsequently destroyed by the rainforest), Empire of Necessity (about a slave revolt on a ship that inspired Melville's Benito Cereno as well as the larger currents and horrors of the 19th century slave trade), and Empire's Workshop, which chronicles how American empire used Latin America as a laboratory of sorts in which to test methods of imperial rule that it later extended across the world.
Shoutout Greg Grandin, who is a fantastic historian of US empire, whose hits include Fordlandia (about how Ford setup a rubber plant and factory in the Amazon rainforest, exposing how simultaneously terrible and hilarious American imperalism was—they did shit like build a giant golf course inside the Amazon that was subsequently destroyed by the rainforest), Empire of Necessity (about a slave revolt on a ship that inspired Melville's Benito Cereno as well as the larger currents and horrors of the 19th century slave trade), and Empire's Workshop, which chronicles how American empire used Latin America as a laboratory of sorts in which to test methods of imperial rule that it later extended across the world.
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