Empire's tracks : indigenous nations, Chinese workers, and the transcontinental railroad
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Empire's tracks : indigenous nations, Chinese workers, and the transcontinental railroad
（American crossroads, 52）
University of California Press, c2019
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 255-287
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
by "Nielsen BookData"
