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Earth into Property

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A broad exploration of the colonial roots of global capitalism and the worldwide quest of Indigenous people for liberation through decolonization.
  • 23 August 2010
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Earth into Property: The Bowl with One Spoon, Part Two explores the relationship between the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and the making of global capitalism. Beginning with Christopher Columbus's inception of a New World Order in 1492, Anthony Hall draws on a massive body of original research to produce a narrative that is audacious, encyclopedic, and transformative in the new light it sheds on the complex historical processes that converged in the financial debacle of 2008 and 2009.

Bridging huge expanses of chronology and geography, character and circumstance, Hall explores multiple motifs of globalization through a wide array of interpretive lenses. In the process the author brings fresh perspectives to our understanding of empire builders like Magellan, John Jacob Astor, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Ford, and Adolf Hitler. Hall balances his history of imperial globalization with an attentive focus on the prophets and proponents of decolonization, from Tecumseh to Martin Luther King Jr., from Gandhi to Nelson Mandela, to Sitting Bull and Splitting The Sky.

With the dismantling of the formal empires of Europe after the Second World War, the US corporate state moved to fill the vacuum of power. Hall shows that the US government, in seeking to replicate its role in the Cold war by mounting the Global War on Terror, is extending trajectories of conquest that began with invasions of Indian nations to further the expansionary course of American Empire.

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Price: $45.95
Pages: 934
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Series: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
Publication Date: 23 August 2010
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780773531222
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
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"[Earth into Property] is a must read for those who wish to understand the evolution of Globalization since 1492." Veterans Today

Praise for The American Empire and the Fourth World: "I cannot overstate the importance of this book, an overflowing tool box, filled with little-known stories, legal arguments, and fresh ideas that, if used properly, could change the world." -Naomi Klein, author of No Logo "The first truly important Canadian book of the century." -Alex Rettie, Alberta Views "Readers now have the engaged, passionate, critical history of the founding moments of Canada and the United States that our times call for." -Canadian Dimension
Anthony J. Hall is professor of globalization studies at the University of Lethbridge. He is the author of The American Empire and the Fourth World, which introduces the series The Bowl with One Spoon. Earth into Property is the second volume of the Bowl project.