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t. e. "You didn't build that" is a phrase from a 2012 election campaign speech delivered by United States President Barack Obama on July 13, 2012, in Roanoke, Virginia. In the speech, Obama said: "Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges.
Empire State Building Quotes Showing 1-30 of 91. “Following this formula, John Jacob Astor, who arrived in America the classic penniless immigrant in 1792, rose to become the “landlord of New York” and the richest man in America by the time he died in 1848.” ― John Tauranac, The Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark. 1 likes. Like.
15 Ιουν 2018 · In your new book, American Empire, you write: “In the United States imperialism was part of the process of nation building.” What do you mean by that? That’s an excellent follow-up to your previous question because nation-building is frequently linked to territorial expansion, and in some cases expansion can be imperialistic.
America is an empire that does not wish to be one ; we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done to maintain the global order that allows democracy and prosperity to flourish.
12 Απρ 2018 · While the author acknowledges that the amendment “became a template for American dominance of weak countries” (191), he fails to make more of the fact that such tools of informal empire increasingly replaced colonial rule.
19 Φεβ 2019 · In How to Hide an Empire, Immerwahr provides a jaw-dropping account of how the American empire was formed soon after WWII and how that empire has taken on a modern day transformation where it sells itself as an egalitarian democracy but is actually a pointillistic empire spread across the world.
12 Νοε 2021 · General Introduction: What is America and the World? Introduction to Volume II; Part I Building and Resisting US Empire; 1 The United States between Nation and Empire, 1776–1820; 2 Indigenous Nations and the United States; 3 Settler Colonialism; 4 Slavery and Statecraft; 5 The Mexican-American War
