Blurb from a JoCoNaut:

528 pages. A fascinating and very readable history of the current and former overseas possessions of the United States of America - from Puerto Rico to the Philippines to a bunch of rocks covered in bird shit. "At various times, the inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven’t been, by and large, is seen." One of my favorite history books.