Earth into Property: Colonization, Decolonization, and Capitalism

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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. Cover Title Copyright Contents 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 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z