Empire of the people : settler colonialism and the foundations of modern democratic thought / Adam Dahl.
2018
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Title
Empire of the people : settler colonialism and the foundations of modern democratic thought / Adam Dahl.
Imprint
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2018]
Description
1 online resource.
Series
American political thought.
Formatted Contents Note
The settler colonial foundations of modern democratic thought
Federalism and Empire
From colonial dependence to imperial equality
The coloniality of constituent power
Settler Colonialism and Democratic Culture
Colonial dispossession and the settler social state
Manifest Destiny and the safety valve of colonization
Slavery and the empire of free soil
Unsettling Democracy
William Apess and the paradox of settler sovereignty
Decolonizing the democratic tradition.
Federalism and Empire
From colonial dependence to imperial equality
The coloniality of constituent power
Settler Colonialism and Democratic Culture
Colonial dispossession and the settler social state
Manifest Destiny and the safety valve of colonization
Slavery and the empire of free soil
Unsettling Democracy
William Apess and the paradox of settler sovereignty
Decolonizing the democratic tradition.
Summary
In Empire of the People, Adam Dahl examines the ideological development of American democratic thought in the context of settler colonialism, a distinct form of colonialism aimed at the appropriation of Native land rather than the exploitation of Native labor. By placing the development of American political thought and culture in the context of nineteenth-century settler expansion, his work reveals how practices and ideologies of Indigenous dispossession have laid the cultural and social foundations of American democracy, and in doing so profoundly shaped key concepts in modern democratic theory such as consent, social equality, popular sovereignty, and federalism.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-244) and index.
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Print version: Dahl, Adam. Empire of the people. Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2018]
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English
ISBN
9780700626083 (ebook)
0700626085 (ebook)
9780700626069 (cloth)
9780700626076 (paperback)
0700626085 (ebook)
9780700626069 (cloth)
9780700626076 (paperback)
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