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Music Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

This is the second in our three-part series with Aziz Rana, re-examining the entirety of American

history through alternating periods of conflict and quiescence around our liberal, capitalist,

imperialist, constitutional order. This is the history of how an avowed white Anglo-Settler

colony, practicing the widespread enslavement of black workers while expanding westward through the dispossession of indigenous land transformed itself in the wake of the Spanish-American War in World Wars 1 and 2 into a global empire that claimed its right to hegemony by virtue of its universalist

emancipatory principles. And then it's the history of how that all, through our present moment,

has spectacularly fallen apart. In the first episode, we traced the foundation of the American

settler empire from the revolutionary generation through the eve of World War I.

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