Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental RailroadEmpire’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. |
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Contents
The Prose of Countersovereignty | 1 |
and 2 Railroad Colonialism | 38 |
and 4 Lakota Nation | 58 |
and 6 Chinese Workers | 80 |
and 8 Pawnee Nation | 102 |
Pawnee | 104 |
and 10 Cheyenne Nation | 126 |
Cheyenne | 128 |
Shareholder Whiteness | 149 |
Continental Imperialism | 168 |
The Significance of Decolonization | 185 |
Acknowledgments | 201 |
| 255 | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad Volume 52 of American Crossroads |
| Author | Manu Karuka |
| Publisher | Univ of California Press, 2019 |
| ISBN | 0520296648, 9780520296640 |
| Length | 320 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Native American History / United States / 19th Century History / United States / General Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies |
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