Cultivating Empire : : Capitalism, Philanthropy, and the Negotiation of American Imperialism in Indian Country / / Lori J. Daggar.
Cultivating Empire charts the connections between missionary work, capitalism, and Native politics to understand the making of the American empire in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. It presents American empire-building as a negotiated phenomenon that was built upon the foundation...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Part I. Foundations
- Chapter 1. Missionaries and the Making of a New Empire in North America
- Chapter 2. Resurrecting the “Chain of Friendship”: The International Politics of Intercultural Diplomacy
- Part II. Routes
- Chapter 3. Becoming Useful: Speculative Philanthropy, Civilization, and Educational Reform
- Chapter 4. The Mission Complex: The Material Consequences of Civilizing Work
- Part III. Negotiations
- Chapter 5. “A Damnd Rebelious Race”: Native Authority in the Aftermath of War
- Chapter 6. “The Best and Cheapest Way to Get Rid of Them”: Speculative Philanthropy and Indigenous Dispossession
- Chapter 7. “Of Mercy and of Sound Policy Too”: Cultivating American Empire on the Continent and Overseas
- Epilogue
- NOTES
- INDEX
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS