RaveThe Los Angeles Review of BooksCan knowledge of the history provide a way out of the current crisis? In Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World, Suzy Hansen posits that the answer to these questions is, at least potentially, yes ... As the book progresses, her perspective expands; Hansen highlights how even these 'positive' ways of viewing Turkey are themselves steeped in imperialism ... Hansen uses a litany of horrifying historical examples of American imperialism to combat what she sees as the standard American practice of pretending that it isn’t a colonial force... It would be difficult for an American reader not feel changed by this book.
