Iron Cages

Race and Culture in 19th-Century America
Revised Edition
ISBN13: 9780195137378ISBN10: 019513737X Paperback, 400 pages
Mar 2000,  In Stock

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Table of Contents

One -- Republicanism
I. The "Iron Cage" in the New Nation
The Birth of a Virtuous People
Race and Republican Society
II. "Diseases" of the Mind and Sun
"Republican Machines"
The "Lovely White"
III. Within the "Bowels" of the Republic
Head Over Heart
Black Colonization
Red Lockeans
Two -- Enterprise
IV. Beyond Primitive Accumulation
Democracy in America:
The Inner World of the Bourgeoisie
The Market Revolution and Race
V. The Metaphysics of Civilization: "The Red Race on Our Borders"
An Age of Confidence
Jibbenainosay: Indian-Hatin in Fantasy
Jackson: Metaphysician of Indian-Hating
VI. The Metaphysics of Civilization: "The Black Race Within Our Bosom"
The Black Child/Savage: A Jacksonian Persuasion
"Warranteeism": A Vision of a "Marx of the Master Class"
Aesculapius Was a White Man: Race and the Cult of True Womanhood
Three -- Technology
VII. An American Prospero in King Arthur's Court
The New Body
White Technology: Anglo Over Mexican
The Triumph of Mind in Ameica
VIII. The Iron Horse in the West
"Red Gifts" and "White Gifts": The World Custer Lost
The Scientific Management of Indians
IX. Civilization in the "New South"
Machines and Magnolias" Black Labor in an Industrial Order
The "Negro Question": "Higher Life" in the South
X. The "Heathen Chinee" and American Technology
Ah Sin in America
A Yellow Proletariat: Caste and Class in Industrial America
A Vision of Catastrophe: Henry George and the American Tower of Babel
Four -- Empire
XI. The Masculine Thrust Toward Asia
The "Iron Cage" in a Corporate Civilization
The New Empire: American Asceticism and the "New Navy"
XII. Down from the Gardens of Asia
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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