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Title: Cultivating Empire Condition: New Subtitle: Capitalism, Philanthropy, and the Negotiation of American Imperialism in Indian Country Author: Lori J. Daggar Format: Hardback ISBN-10: 1512823295 EAN: 9781512823295 ISBN: 9781512823295 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Genre: History Topic: Social Sciences, Society & Culture Release Date: 09/20/2022 Description: 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 foundations of earlier Atlantic empires, and it shows how U.S. territorial and economic development went hand-in-hand. Lori. J. Daggar explores how Native authority and diplomatic protocols encouraged the fledgling U.S. federal government to partner with missionaries in the realm of Indian affairs, and she charts how that partnership borrowed and deviated from earlier imperial-missionary partnerships. Employing the terminology of speculative philanthropy to underscore the ways in which a desire to do good often coexisted with a desire to make profit, Cultivating Empire links eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century U.S. Indian policy—often framed as benevolent by its crafters—with the emergence of racial capitalism in the United States. In the process, Daggar argues that Native peoples wielded ideas of philanthropy and civilization for their own purposes and that Indian Country played a critical role in the construction of the U.S. imperial state and its economy. Rather than understand civilizing missions simply as tools for assimilation, then, Cultivating Empire reveals that missions were hinges for U.S. economic and political development that could both devastate Indigenous communities and offer Native peoples additional means to negotiate for power and endure. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Book Series: Early American Studies Release Year: 2022
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