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A wave of disruptions is rocking the world trading system. Britains divorce from the European Union has turned messy, while the U.S. trade war with China has investors on edge. The cost of such risks is substantial: About 2.3 percent of global GDP is tied to …

In the end, Hoganson is not overturning the heartland myth to demonstrate that Midwesterners are cultivated citizens of the world, but rather to prove that they are, and always have been, agents of empire. Her book follows in the footsteps of the historian Wi…