Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad Volume 52 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520296626)

Empire's Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the railroad within the violent global histories of colonialism and capitalism. Through an examination of legislative, military, and business records, Karuka deftly explains the imperial foundations of U.S. political economy. Tracing the shared paths of Indigenous and Asian American histories, this multisited interdisciplinary study connects military occupation to exclusionary border policies, a linked chain spanning the heart of U.S. imperialism. This highly original and beautifully wrought book unveils how the transcontinental railroad laid the tracks of the U.S. Empire.


Author: Manu Karuka
ISBN-10: 0520296621
ISBN-13: 9780520296626
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 03/05/2019
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.00d