Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. INTRODUCTION: US Exceptionalisms, Metapolitical Authority, and the Aesthetics of Settler Imperial Failure 1
4. 1. PERVERSE TEMPORALITIES: Primitive Accumulation and the Settler Colonial Foundations of Debt Imperialism 39
5. 2. THE MILITARY BASE AND CAMPTOWN: Seizing Land “by Bulldozer and Bayonet” and the Transpacific Masculinist Compact 62
6. 3. THE POW CAMP: Waging Psychological Warfare and a New Settler Frontier 113
7. 4. THE UNINCORPORATED TERRITORY: Constituting Indefinite Deferral and “No Page Is Ever Terra Nullius” 138
8. EPILOGUE: Climate Change, Climate Debt, Climate Imperialism 174
9. Acknowledgments 185
10. Notes 189
11. Bibliography 229
12. Index 249