![]() ![]() Megan Black’s detailed analysis shows how, throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, Interior cultivated and exploited its image as an innocuous scientific-research and environmental-management organization in order to drive and satisfy America’s insatiable demand for raw materials. When that seemed complete, the department maintained its role but expanded its reach. Interior’s first task was to oversee settler colonialism in the American West. Yet The Global Interior reveals that a government organ best known for managing domestic natural resources and operating national parks has constantly supported and projected American power. Its very name declares its narrow portfolio. global expansion, the Department of the Interior rarely comes to mind. 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 Deserts power globally while emphatically denying that the United States was an empire.”-Penny Von Eschen, author of Satchmo Blows Up the World “Offers unprecedented insights into the depth and staying power of American exceptionalism…as generations of policymakers sought to extend the reach of U.S. “Extraordinary…Deftly rearranges the last century and a half of American history in fresh and useful ways.”- Los Angeles Review of Books ![]()
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