Chapter Fourteen Genocide and Global Capitalism

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents ix
3. Memory and History in the Contest between Empire and Liberty 3
4. Accelerating Time, Shrinking Space, Privatizing the Commons
5. Looking Backwards and Forwards from the World’s Columbian Exposition 37
6. Imperialism and Its Enemies: From the Crusades to Enron 59
7. Colonizing Time, Remaking Space, Shaping Opinions, Privatizing the Commons 111
8. Visions of Self-Determination in Eras of Imperial Rule, Apartheid, the Cold War, the War on Terror, and Late Consumer Capitalism 165
9. Hitler or Roosevelt? Finding Third Ways to the Fourth World 217
10. Indian Country, the Industrial Revolution, and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex
11. Encounters with Indigenous Peoples in the Making of Two Transcontinental Polities in North America 267
12. Pushing Westward 315
13. Manipulating Law and Lawlessness in the Conquests of Anglo-America 350
14. Landscapes of Memory, Territories of Power 396
15. Media of Power in the Construction (and Deconstruction) of America 432
16. War and Peace 478
17. Empire and Multitude Meet the Fourth World
18. Indigenous Peoples in the Law and Practice of Nations 527
19. Colonialism Incorporated: International Finance, Treaties, Crimes, and the Law during the Age of Impunity 588
20. Genocide and Global Capitalism 655
21. From General Motors to AIG to the Bowl with One Spoon: Reading the Financial Crisis 712
22. From Imperial Absolutism to Reasonable Relativism, 1893–1992 757
23. Notes 765
24. Acknowledgments 885
25. Index 891