Title
The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power,Used
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Winner of the George Perkins Marsh PrizeWinner of the Stuart L. Bernath PrizeWinner of the W. Turrentine Jackson AwardWinner of the British Association of American Studies Prize?xtraordinary?eftly rearranges the last century and a half of American history in fresh and useful ways.?Los Angeles Review of Books? smart, original, and ambitious book. Black demonstrates that the Interior Department has had a far larger, more invasive, and more consequential role in the world than one would expect.?Brian DeLay, author of War of a Thousand DesertsWhen considering the story of American power, the Department of the Interior rarely comes to mind. Yet it turns out that a government agency best known for managing natural resources and operating national parks has constantly supported America? imperial aspirations.Megan Black? pathbreaking book brings to light the surprising role Interior has played in pursuing minerals around the worldon Indigenous lands, in foreign nations, across the oceans, even in outer space. Black shows how the department touted its credentials as an innocuous environmentalmanagement organization while quietly satisfying America? insatiable demand for raw materials. As presidents trumpeted the value of selfdetermination, this almost invisible outreach gave the country many of the benefits of empire without the burden of a heavy footprint. Under the guise of sharing expertise with the underdeveloped world, Interior scouted tin sources in Bolivia and led lithium surveys in Afghanistan. Today, it promotes offshore drilling and even manages a satellite that prospects for Earth? resources from outer space.?ffers unprecedented insights into the depth and staying power of American exceptionalism?s generations of policymakers sought to extend the reach of U.S. power globally while emphatically denying that the United States was an empire.?Penny Von Eschen, author of Satchmo Blows Up the World?ucceeds in showing both the central importance of minerals in the development of American power and how the realities of empire could be obscured through a focus on modernization and the mantra of conservation.?Ian Tyrrell, author of Crisis of the Wasteful Nation
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