Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1017/s1537781422000342
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1017/S1537781422000354
James E. Sanders
Roberto Saba ’ s American Mirror is an insightful examination of how abolition in both Brazil and the United States resulted not in more equitable societies, but, rather, in the expansion of capitalism under regimes of wage labor that intensified vast inequalities. Saba argues that cosmopolitan antislavery reformers promoted emancipation “ to boost capitalist development in both countries ” (2). These “ bourgeois modernizers ” saw slavery as “ the main impediment ” to modernity and capitalist development (3). Abolishing slavery would attract immigrant laborers, encourage innovation, and free up capital and labor in more rational ways. According to these reformers, slaveowners did not make good use of technology, did not innovate, wasted labor power, and maintained a colonial relationship with Great Britain. Saba contends that antislavery was not just about rights and freedom, but also about the making of capitalism: while rights would remain “ distant aspirations, ” “ antislavery reformers succeeded in expanding capitalist production and trade ” (7). Saba is not comparing and contrasting the United States and Brazil, but, instead, studying the shared process of capitalist development on a global scale (one of the book ’ s great strengths). Saba ’ s provocative thesis builds on as well as upends the new historiography detailing slavery ’ s centrality to capitalism ’ s expansion, arguing that even more important was how the abolition of slavery, and the new labor and property regimes that emancipation engendered, created an even more powerful industrial and agro-industrial capitalist system. Saba argues that the clear economic superiority of the U.S. North in comparison with the U.S. South proved to nineteenth-century observers that slavery was an economic anchor. Furthermore, slavery ’ s abolition in both countries didn ’ t result in economic disruption (which
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1017/s1537781422000330
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1017/S1537781422000391
N. Shoemaker
In myriad ways, Holger Droessler ’ s Coconut Colonialism adds important information and insight to the complex of
霍尔格·德罗斯勒的《椰子殖民主义》以多种方式为复杂的殖民主义增添了重要的信息和见解
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1017/s1537781422000329
Rosanne Currarino
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1017/S1537781422000287
Lila M. Teeters
Abstract In January of 1920, the House of Representatives passed HR 288, also known as the Carter Bill, which would have made all American Indians born in the territorial United States citizens. While lauded by some as a “simple act of justice” to extend citizenship to America’s first peoples, many Native Americans protested the bill, which eventually led to its demise. In the press, the Pueblos led the protest. Their activism highlights key, yet overlooked, developments in American Indian citizenship in the early twentieth century. First, citizenship lost any pretense of a consensual nature. Second, Indigenous protests forced congressmen to change the very nature of citizenship: from a status that marked completed assimilation to something much more pluralistic. Highlighting the Pueblos’ fight helps historians analyze Native activism in the Progressive Era while problematizing citizenship as the ultimate aspirational status.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1017/S1537781422000366
B. Rouleau
Saba insists. Saba’s overreach should not, however, detract from American Mirror’s impressive strengths. The book is exhaustingly researched, with material from national and local archives in Brazil and theUnited States. Saba’s central argument, thatmany elite reformers chose capitalism over a more egalitarian post-emancipation society, is undoubtedly correct, as are his perceptive insights on the transformation of capitalism in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1017/S1537781422000299
Colm Lavery
Abstract Racial mapping during the Progressive Era played into the political narratives of eugenic intervention and immigration restriction. This article argues that the racial cartographic work of the Yale geographer and prolific eugenicist Ellsworth Huntington was both developed within and contributed to this racist milieu. Huntington’s middle-class and educated upbringing, his familial history, and his expertise as a well-travelled geographer all conspired to shape his views on eugenics, race, and immigration. By applying the critical cartographic theories of John Brian Harley, Denis Wood, Heather Winlow, and others, I show that Huntington’s racial maps were a product of his cultural and political environment. The success of a map’s impact was often due to maps being seen as objective depictions of spatial variation. Indeed, for Huntington they performed an essential role in communicating and portraying racial information. But, as I argue, they were susceptible to bias, misunderstanding, and intentional manipulation. I show that Huntington’s maps are not accurate snapshots of reality, but rather cultural texts or rhetorical images intended to create a narrative and convince the reader of a particular subjective point of view.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1017/s1537781422000378
C. Groeger
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1017/S153778142200041X
Anthony Sparacino
Jon Grinspan provides a stimulating account of the state of American democracy in the post – Civil War period, chronicling the rise of what he labels the “ normal ” politics that would come to define twentieth-century America. Reconstruction, covered in the first part of the book, began with the promise of mass, or “ pure, ” democracy, with citizens embracing politics “ with a zealous fixation ” but leading to “ maddening ” results (xi). The post-Reconstruction period is characterized as a period of inertia, in which the political “ system was overheating and standing still, attracting great interest but offering little change ” (108). Ultimately, attempts to “ fix ” American democracy, discussed in the third part of the book, provided a series of “ new tools ” of democracy that acted as restraints on the system, curtailing the era ’ s perceived vices — for instance, the tribalism of mass partisanship — but also the virtues of mass participation and the sense of community provided by strong parties. The “ normal ” politics of the twentieth century, according to Grinspan, is “ an invention ” (ix) and a historical aberration, but a standard by which we evaluate contemporary American politics. At its core, The Age of Acrimony documents a set of interrelated tradeoffs: civility for participation, private decision-making for public engagement, and independence for partisanship.
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