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Coming: America, but Bigger
The stories of how America might have gotten much bigger through over two centuries of attempted annexations.
How much bigger?
In America, but Bigger: Near-Annexations, from Greenland to the Galápagos, author Mark Kawar uncovers the surprising, often-forgotten history of America’s unrealized empire. Sparked by President Donald Trump’s 2019 bid to purchase Greenland, Kawar set out to ask a bigger question: Just how far did U.S. territorial ambitions reach?
The answer is astonishing. Beyond well-known attempts on Canada, Mexico, and Cuba, the United States at various points entertained claims or proposals involving Indonesia, Syria, Ecuador, Taiwan, and even the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia. From 18th-century appeals by El Salvador and Polynesian chiefs, to the Cold War push for Greenland, the book traces two and a half centuries of schemes, negotiations, invasions, and near-misses.
Richly researched and often stranger than fiction, America, but Bigger reveals how close the United States came to being much larger—and how those ambitions continue to echo today.
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