{"product_id":"life-in-and-against-the-heidi-hoechst-9781439912188","title":"Life in and against the Odds: Debts of Freedom and the Speculative Roots of U.S. Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eSomehow people continue to imagine a world of justice against the odds of a deck that has been stacked against them. In her urgent and perceptive book, \u003ci\u003eLife in and against the Odds, \u003c\/i\u003e Hoechst focuses on the particular circumstances and conditions of different phases of speculative expansion in the United States. She traces the roots of the nation-state to nineteenth-century land markets and slave exchanges. Hoechst also chronicles how these racial foundations extend through corporate capitalism from the 1920s and  30s to the present era of financialized capitalism and the recent housing bubble.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife in and against the Odds\u003c\/i\u003e identifies where and how speculative nationalism creates roadblocks to freedom. Hoechst retells the history of the United States with a perspective on how human lives are made, destroyed, reconfigured, and claimed under the systemic violence of a nation that is rooted in the racializing futurity of speculative capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Heidi Hoechst\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1439912181\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439912188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Heidi Hoechst","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48453633442047,"sku":"9781439912188","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2a9f4d66-143d-47a0-bb66-1cb9851dc594.jpg?v=1777301315","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/life-in-and-against-the-heidi-hoechst-9781439912188","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}