Daniel Immerwahr

Daniel Immerwahr is an American historian, professor, and associate department chair of history at Northwestern University. His book, Thinking Small, won the Merle Curti Award. His book, How to Hide an Empire, was a national bestseller, one of the New York Times critic's top books of the year, and winner of the Robert H. Ferrell Prize.

Daniel Immerwahr
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (PhD)
King's College, Cambridge (BA)
Columbia University (BA)
GenreNon-fiction

Early life and education

Immerwahr originates from a Jewish family and is the great-grandson of a cousin of Clara Immerwahr, pioneering chemist and first wife of Fritz Haber.[1] He completed an undergraduate degree at Columbia University, and a second undergraduate degree at King's College, Cambridge, where he was a Marshall Scholar,[2] and a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley.

Career

He is a professor of history at Northwestern University.[3] His work has appeared in n+1, Slate, Jacobin,[4] and Dissent.[5]

Works
  • Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press 2015. ISBN 978-0-6742-8994-9, OCLC 949790596
  • How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. ISBN 978-0-3741-7214-5, OCLC 1088916388[6][7]

References
  1. Immerwahr, Daniel (2019). How to Hide an Empire: Geography and Power in the Greater United States. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-3741-7214-5 – via "A poignant story" by Mano Singham at FreethoughtBlogs.
  2. "Immerwahr Wins Marshall Scholarship". Columbia Daily Spectator. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
  3. "Daniel Immerwahr". Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Department of History - Northwestern University. Retrieved August 16, 2019.
  4. "Daniel Immerwahr". Jacobin. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  5. "Daniel Immerwahr". Dissent Magazine. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  6. Borrelli, Christopher. "Almost everything you know about U.S. borders is wrong". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  7. Szalai, Jennifer (2019-02-13). "'How to Hide an Empire' Shines Light on America's Expansionist Side". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
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