In Whose Ruins Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire [EPUB]

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In Whose Ruins Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire [EPUB] | 17.84 MB

Title: In Whose Ruins
Author: Alicia Puglionesi
Category: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, Labour & Industrial Relations, Business & Finance, Economics, Economic History, History, Americas, United States, 20th Century
Language: English | 544 Pages | ISBN: 1982116757


Description:
In this examination of landscape and memory, four sites of American history are revealed as places where historical truth was written over by oppressive fiction-with profound repercussions for politics past and present.
Popular narratives of American history conceal as much as they reveal. They present a national identity based on harvesting the treasures that lay in wait for European colonization. In Whose Ruins tells another story: winding through the US landscape, from Native American earthworks in West Virginia to the Manhattan Project in New Mexico, this history is a tour of sites that were mined for an empire's power. Showing the hidden costs of ruthless economic growth, particularly to Indigenous people and ways of understanding, this book illuminates the myth-making intimately tied to place. From the ground up, the project of settlement, expansion, and extraction became entwined with the spiritual values of those who hoped to gain from it. Every...

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