| Response sheet 2, for class, Thursday | |
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1. Hansen stresses the importance of three kinds of knowledge for any American citizen. First, what is the importance of knowledge of other places in the world, on their own terms? 2. Second, what is the importance of knowledge of the history and presence of the United States in other places in the world? 3. Third, what is the importance of knowledge of one’s own culture and upbringing? 4. According to Immerwahr, at the time of “Pearl Harbor” how much of American territory and population was outside the United States? 5. Immerwahr mentions the historian Bill Rankin’s concept of “pointillist empire.” What does that entail with respect to the current geographic form of the U.S. empire? |