Cultivating Empire
University of Pennsylvania Press (Verlag)
978-1-5128-2329-5 (ISBN)
Employing the terminology of speculative philanthropy to underscore the ways in which a desire to do good often coexisted with a desire to make profit, Cultivating Empire links eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century U.S. Indian policy—often framed as benevolent by its crafters—with the emergence of racial capitalism in the United States. In the process, Daggar argues that Native peoples wielded ideas of philanthropy and civilization for their own purposes and that Indian Country played a critical role in the construction of the U.S. imperial state and its economy. Rather than understand civilizing missions simply as tools for assimilation, then, Cultivating Empire reveals that missions were hinges for U.S. economic and political development that could both devastate Indigenous communities and offer Native peoples additional means to negotiate for power and endure.
Lori J. Daggar is Assistant Professor of History at Ursinus College.
Introduction
Part I. Foundations
Chapter 1. Missionaries and the Making of a New Empire in North America
Chapter 2. Resurrecting the “Chain of Friendship”: The International Politics of Intercultural Diplomacy
Part II. Routes
Chapter 3. Becoming Useful: Speculative Philanthropy, Civilization, and Educational Reform
Chapter 4. The Mission Complex: The Material Consequences of Civilizing Work
Part III. Negotiations
Chapter 5. “A Damnd Rebelious Race”: Native Authority in the Aftermath of War
Chapter 6. “The Best and Cheapest Way to Get Rid of Them”: Speculative Philanthropy and Indigenous Dispossession
Chapter 7. “Of Mercy and of Sound Policy Too”: Cultivating American Empire on the Continent and Overseas
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Erscheinungsdatum | 02.09.2022 |
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Reihe/Serie | Early American Studies |
Zusatzinfo | 10 illus. |
Verlagsort | Pennsylvania |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5128-2329-5 / 1512823295 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5128-2329-5 / 9781512823295 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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