Earth into Property: Colonization, Decolonization, and Capitalism 9780773590885

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Earth into Property: Colonization, Decolonization, and Capitalism
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Introduction: Memory and History in the Contest between Empire and Liberty
PART ONE: ACCELERATING TIME, SHRINKING SPACE, PRIVATIZING THE COMMONS
1 Looking Backwards and Forwards from the World's Columbian Exposition
2 Imperialism and Its Enemies: From the Crusades to Enron
3 Colonizing Time, Remaking Space, Shaping Opinions, Privatizing the Commons
4 Visions of Self-Determination in Eras of Imperial Rule, Apartheid, the Cold War, the War on Terror, and Late Consumer Capitalism
5 Hitler or Roosevelt? Finding Third Ways to the Fourth World
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
7 Pushing Westward
8 Manipulating Law and Lawlessness in the Conquests of Anglo- America
9 Landscapes of Memory, Territories of Power
10 Media of Power in the Construction (and Deconstruction) of America
11 War and Peace
PART THREE: EMPIRE AND MULTITUDE MEET THE FOURTH WORLD
12 Indigenous Peoples in the Law and Practice of Nations
13 Colonialism Incorporated: International Finance, Treaties, Crimes, and the Law during the Age of Impunity
14 Genocide and Global Capitalism
15 From General Motors to AIG to the Bowl with One Spoon: Reading the Financial Crisis
Epilogue: From Imperial Absolutism to Reasonable Relativism, 1893–1992
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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