Life in and against the Odds: Debts of Freedom and the Speculative Roots of U.S.

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ISBN
9781439912188
Book Title
Life in and Against the Odds : Debts of Freedom and the Speculative Roots of U. S. Culture
Publisher
Temple University Press
Item Length
9 in
Publication Year
2015
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
1 in
Author
Heidi Höchst
Genre
Literary Criticism, Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Topic
Sociology / General, Social History, American / General, Political Ideologies / Democracy, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism, Investments & Securities / General
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Item Width
6 in
Number of Pages
312 Pages
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Publisher
Temple University Press
ISBN-10
1439912181
ISBN-13
9781439912188
eBay Product ID (ePID)
211900335

Product Key Features

Book Title
Life in and Against the Odds : Debts of Freedom and the Speculative Roots of U. S. Culture
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Sociology / General, Social History, American / General, Political Ideologies / Democracy, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism, Investments & Securities / General
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Literary Criticism, Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Author
Heidi Höchst
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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LCCN
2015-013700
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
305.50973
Synopsis
Somehow people continue to imagine a world of justice against the odds of a deck that has been stacked against them. In her urgent and perceptive book, Life in and against the Odds, Hoechst focuses on the particular circumstances and conditions of different phases of speculative expansion in the United States. She traces the roots of the nation-state to nineteenth-century land markets and slave exchanges. Hoechst also chronicles how these racial foundations extend through corporate capitalism from the 1920s and 30s to the present era of financialized capitalism and the recent housing bubble. Life in and against the Odds identifies where and how speculative nationalism creates roadblocks to freedom. Hoechst retells the history of the United States with a perspective on how human lives are made, destroyed, reconfigured, and claimed under the systemic violence of a nation that is rooted in the racializing futurity of speculative capitalism., Somehow people continue to imagine a world of justice against the odds of a deck that has been stacked against them. In her urgent and perceptive book, Life in and against the Odds, Hoechst focuses on the particular circumstances and conditions of different phases of speculative expansion in the United States. She traces the roots of the nation-state to nineteenth-century land markets and slave exchanges. Hoechst also chronicles how these racial foundations extend through corporate capitalism from the 1920s and ´30s to the present era of financialized capitalism and the recent housing bubble. Life in and against the Odds identifies where and how speculative nationalism creates roadblocks to freedom. Hoechst retells the history of the United States with a perspective on how human lives are made, destroyed, reconfigured, and claimed under the systemic violence of a nation that is rooted in the racializing futurity of speculative capitalism., Somehow people continue to imagine a world of justice against the odds of a deck that has been stacked against them. In her urgent and perceptive book, Life in and against the Odds, Hoechst focuses on the particular circumstances and conditions of different phases of speculative expansion in the United States. She traces the roots of the nation-state to nineteenth-century land markets and slave exchanges. Hoechst also chronicles how these racial foundations extend through corporate capitalism from the 1920s and ´30s to the present era of financialized capitalism and the recent housing bubble.Life in and against the Odds identifies where and how speculative nationalism creates roadblocks to freedom. Hoechst retells the history of the United States with a perspective on how human lives are made, destroyed, reconfigured, and claimed under the systemic violence of a nation that is rooted in the racializing futurity of speculative capitalism.
LC Classification Number
HN90.S6H64 2015

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