Empire's Tracks - Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad Karuka ManuPaperback
Empire's Tracks - Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad Karuka ManuPaperback Empire's Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the…
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Empire's Tracks - Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad Karuka ManuPaperback
Empire'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. Through an examination of legislative, military, and business records, Karuka deftly explains the imperial foundations of U.S. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the railroad within the violent global histories of colonialism and capitalism.
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. political economy. imperialism.
This highly original and beautifully wrought book unveils how the transcontinental railroad laid the tracks of the U.S. Empire.