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Earth into PropertyColonization, Decolonization, and Capitalism |
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A broad exploration of the colonial roots of global capitalism and the worldwide quest of Indigenous people for liberation through decolonization.
Earth into Property: The Bowl with One Spoon, Part Two explores the relationship between the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and the making of global capitalism. Beginning with Christopher Columbus's inception of a New World Order in 1492, Anthony Hall draws on a massive body of original research to produce a narrative that is audacious, encyclopedic, and transformative in the new light it sheds on the complex historical processes that converged in the financial debacle of 2008 and 2009.
Bridging huge expanses of chronology and geography, character and circumstance, Hall explores multiple motifs of globalization through a wide array of interpretive lenses. In the process the author brings fresh perspectives to our understanding of empire builders like Magellan, John Jacob Astor, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Ford, and Adolf Hitler. Hall balances his history of imperial globalization with an attentive focus on the prophets and proponents of decolonization, from Tecumseh to Martin Luther King Jr., from Gandhi to Nelson Mandela, to Sitting Bull and Splitting The Sky.
With the dismantling of the formal empires of Europe after the Second World War, the US corporate state moved to fill the vacuum of power. Hall shows that the US government, in seeking to replicate its role in the Cold war by mounting the Global War on Terror, is extending trajectories of conquest that began with invasions of Indian nations to further the expansionary course of American Empire.
Bridging huge expanses of chronology and geography, character and circumstance, Hall explores multiple motifs of globalization through a wide array of interpretive lenses. In the process the author brings fresh perspectives to our understanding of empire builders like Magellan, John Jacob Astor, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Ford, and Adolf Hitler. Hall balances his history of imperial globalization with an attentive focus on the prophets and proponents of decolonization, from Tecumseh to Martin Luther King Jr., from Gandhi to Nelson Mandela, to Sitting Bull and Splitting The Sky.
With the dismantling of the formal empires of Europe after the Second World War, the US corporate state moved to fill the vacuum of power. Hall shows that the US government, in seeking to replicate its role in the Cold war by mounting the Global War on Terror, is extending trajectories of conquest that began with invasions of Indian nations to further the expansionary course of American Empire.
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Part of the McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies (number 62 in series)
934 Pages, 6 x 9
ISBN 9780773531222
August 2010
Formats: Paperback, Cloth, eBook
"This capacious, and impassioned, survey of how the rise of global capitalism has victimized or destroyed the world's least privileged people, especially the indigenes of the Americas and the Pacific." Best Books of 2010, The Independent, UK
"[Earth into Property] is a must read for those who wish to understand the evolution of Globalization since 1492." Veterans Today
"... this book represents a scholarly tour de force." CHOICE
"Earth into Property is a refreshing and invaluable text." The American Indian Quarterly
"[Earth into Property] is a must read for those who wish to understand the evolution of Globalization since 1492." Veterans Today
"... this book represents a scholarly tour de force." CHOICE
"Earth into Property is a refreshing and invaluable text." The American Indian Quarterly
Anthony J. Hall is professor of globalization studies at the University of Lethbridge. He is the author of The American Empire and the Fourth World, which introduces the series The Bowl with One Spoon. Earth into Property is the second volume of the Bowl project.
Earth into Property
Anthony J. Hall
Table of Contents
Introduction: Memory and History in the Contest between
Empire and Liberty 3
PART ONE ACCELERATING TIME, SHRINKING SPACE, PRIVATIZING THE COMMONS
1 Looking Backwards and Forwards from the World’s Columbian Exposition 37
2 Imperialism and Its Enemies: From the Crusades to Enron 59
3 Colonizing Time, Remaking Space, Shaping Opinions, Privatizing the Commons 111
4 Visions of Self-Determination in Eras of Imperial Rule, Apartheid, the Cold War, the War on Terror, and Late Consumer Capitalism 165
5 Hitler or Roosevelt? Finding Third Ways to the Fourth World 217
PART TWO INDIAN COUNTRY, THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, AND THE MAKING OF THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
6 Encounters with Indigenous Peoples in the Making of Two Transcontinental Polities in North America 267
7 Pushing Westward 315
8 Manipulating Law and Lawlessness in the Conquests of Anglo-America 350
9 Landscapes of Memory, Territories of Power 396
10 Media of Power in the Construction (and Deconstruction) of America 432
11 War and Peace 478
PART THREE: EMPIRE AND MULTITUDE MEET THE FOURTH WORLD
12 Indigenous Peoples in the Law and Practice of Nations 527
13 Colonialism Incorporated: International Finance, Treaties, Crimes, and the Law during the Age of Impunity 588
14 Genocide and Global Capitalism 655
15 From General Motors to AIG to the Bowl with One Spoon: Reading the Financial Crisis 712
Epilogue: From Imperial Absolutism to Reasonable Relativism, 1893-1992 757
Notes 765
Acknowledgments 885
Index 891
Anthony J. Hall
Table of Contents
Introduction: Memory and History in the Contest between
Empire and Liberty 3
PART ONE ACCELERATING TIME, SHRINKING SPACE, PRIVATIZING THE COMMONS
1 Looking Backwards and Forwards from the World’s Columbian Exposition 37
2 Imperialism and Its Enemies: From the Crusades to Enron 59
3 Colonizing Time, Remaking Space, Shaping Opinions, Privatizing the Commons 111
4 Visions of Self-Determination in Eras of Imperial Rule, Apartheid, the Cold War, the War on Terror, and Late Consumer Capitalism 165
5 Hitler or Roosevelt? Finding Third Ways to the Fourth World 217
PART TWO INDIAN COUNTRY, THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, AND THE MAKING OF THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
6 Encounters with Indigenous Peoples in the Making of Two Transcontinental Polities in North America 267
7 Pushing Westward 315
8 Manipulating Law and Lawlessness in the Conquests of Anglo-America 350
9 Landscapes of Memory, Territories of Power 396
10 Media of Power in the Construction (and Deconstruction) of America 432
11 War and Peace 478
PART THREE: EMPIRE AND MULTITUDE MEET THE FOURTH WORLD
12 Indigenous Peoples in the Law and Practice of Nations 527
13 Colonialism Incorporated: International Finance, Treaties, Crimes, and the Law during the Age of Impunity 588
14 Genocide and Global Capitalism 655
15 From General Motors to AIG to the Bowl with One Spoon: Reading the Financial Crisis 712
Epilogue: From Imperial Absolutism to Reasonable Relativism, 1893-1992 757
Notes 765
Acknowledgments 885
Index 891
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