Description: Life in and against the Odds : Debts of Freedom and the Speculative Roots of . Culture, Hardcover by Hoechst, Heidi, ISBN 1439912173, ISBN-13 9781439912171, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 perceptiv, 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 howhuman lives are made, destroyed, reconfigured, and claimed under the systemic violence of anation that is rooted in the racializing futurity of speculative capitalism.
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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
Publisher: Temple University Press
Item Height: 1 in
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
Item Weight: 18.9 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Heidi Höchst
Item Width: 6.9 in
Format: Hardcover
