Empire's Tracks, Volume 52: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-520-29662-6
Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR

Buch, Englisch, Band 52, 320 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: American Crossroads

Empire’s Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the railroad within the violent global histories of colonialism and capitalism. Through an examination of legislative, military, and business records, Karuka deftly explains the imperial foundations of U.S. political economy. Tracing the shared paths of Indigenous and Asian American histories, this multisited interdisciplinary study connects military occupation to exclusionary border policies, a linked chain spanning the heart of U.S. imperialism. This highly original and beautifully wrought book unveils how the transcontinental railroad laid the tracks of the U.S. Empire.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Karuka, Manu

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Preface

1 • The Prose of Countersovereignty
2 • Modes of Relationship
3 • Railroad Colonialism
4 • Lakota
5 • Chinese
6 • Pawnee
7 • Cheyenne
8 • Shareholder Whiteness
9 • Continental Imperialism
Epilogue: The Significance of Decolonization
in North America

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Manu Karuka is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Barnard College.