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Edited by Mischa Honeck and Mahshid Mayer, this pathbreaking multidisciplinary volume brings together 17 experts from North America and Europe to take stock of the latest scholarship on the significance of empire for understanding US history, culture, and politics. Rather than revisiting the staid question of whether the US ever was, has been or is an empire, the authors show how the imperial has operated as an almost ubiquitous force throughout American history, and how it has been championed, crafted, contested, and reconstituted by a broad array of actors since the nation's founding. “The US Empire: A Handbook” has been published in 2026 as part of the book series “Empires Throughout the Ages in Global Perspective” (de Gruyter/Brill).