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Earth into Property

Colonization, Decolonization,
and Capitalism

The Bowl with One Spoon

Volume Two

ANTHONY J. HALL

McGill-Queen's University Press

Montreal & Kingston • London • Ithaca
 Contents

Introduction: Memory and History in the Contest between

Empire and Liberty 3

PART ONE ACCELERATING TIME, SHRINKING SPACE,

PRIVATIZING THE COMMONS

1 Looking Backwards and Forwards from the World's Columbian

Exposition 37
2 Imperialism and Its Enemies: From the Crusades to Enron 59
3 Colonizing Time, Remaking Space, Shaping Opinions, Privatizing the
Commons 111
4 Visions of Self-Determination in Eras of Imperial Rule, Apartheid, the
Cold War, the War on Terror, and Late Consumer Capitalism 165
5 Hitler or Roosevelt? Finding Third Ways to the Fourth World 217

PART TWO INDIAN COUNTRY, THE INDUSTRIAL

REVOLUTION, AND THE MAKING OF THE MILITARY-
INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

6 Encounters with Indigenous Peoples in the Making of Two

Transcontinental Polities in North America 267
7 Pushing Westward 315
8 Manipulating Law and Lawlessness in the Conquests of
Anglo-America 350
g Landscapes of Memory, Territories of Power 396
10 Media of Power in the Construction (and Deconstruction) of
America 432
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11 War and Peace 478

PART T H R E E : EMPIRE AND M U L T I T U D E MEET T H E

FOURTH WORLD

12 Indigenous Peoples in the Law and Practice of Nations 527

13 Colonialism Incorporated: International Finance, Treaties, Crimes,
and the Law during the Age of Impunity 588
14 Genocide and Global Capitalism 655
15 From General Motors to AIG to the Bowl with One Spoon:
Reading the Financial Crisis 712
Epilogue: From Imperial Absolutism to Reasonable Relativism,
1893-1992 757

Notes 765
Acknowledgments 885
Index 891