... and subdued labor activism, censored Hollywood movies, and exerted social control over incoming migrants. The chapter first traces Memphis's roots in the plantation economy and assesses the impact of the New Deal on agriculture and industry. It then explores the historical tensions over race and politics...

... the dominant force in education politics. anti communism capitalism and capitalist economy Cold War communism communists Counts George educational left FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation HUAC House Un American Activities Committee left leftists liberalism liberals loyalty investigations social...

...The rural roads that led to our planet-changing global economy ran through the American South. That region's impact on the interconnected histories of business and ecological change is narrated here by acclaimed scholar Bart Elmore, who uses the histories of five southern firms—Coca-Cola, Delta...

... to shape the ways buyers, sellers, and intermediaries interacted. The years around the Great Recession were when disruption driven by platform or sharing economies seemed to be everywhere. This chapter focuses on five areas: the buying, selling, and financing of homes; short-term rentals in popular cities...

...Chapter 5 focuses on debates over poverty and tuberculosis in the context of the disproportionate rates at which Cubans of color died of the disease. This focus provides a view of the city’s racial economy and the meanings that racialized disease took on in the context of a political system...

... began to overlap, emphasizing the dissimilarity of these women’s experiences. The politics of poor and nonslaveholding white Southern women was grounded in the particularities of their political economy and social worlds. Bolton Lydia A Rhodes Mary Springer Francis Caswell Missouri “corn women...

...Chapter 1 serves as more developed introduction for the book. It includes an overview of Brazil’s twentieth century, which was one of dramatic changes in society, politics, culture, and economy that accompanied the development of the country’s consumer capitalism. The chapter adds a description...

... discourses of climate migration and climate war in order to develop a broader account of the carbon economy’s human and ecosystemic costs. climate migrant —figure of great acceleration Groundswell report International Monetary Fund migration 2015 “migrant crisis ” racialization racism securitization...

...This chapter argues that theories of racial capitalism originating in the field of Black Studies offer a productive method for moving beyond stereotyped imageries of climate migration. Connecting racial capitalism research to studies of the political economies of oil and globalized trade...

... Edward Briggs William Byrd William II Urmston John Vidal John Virginia Allen Thomas Coleman Edward Farley Martha Farley Thomas Frazier Andrew Griffing Michael Howard Jonathan Pirates Outer Banks Colonial economy Blackbeard Piracy Edward Teach North Carolina … has only been a Receptacle...

...Throughout the epilogue, new wars between colonists and Native Americans in the mid-seventeenth century is discussed. Issues such as the economy of North Carolina and other northern colonies are mentioned. To conclude the epilogue, the independence of the colonies, as well as the political...

... Political economy Commercial law “Paper ” investments in Wall Street War of 1812 Capitalism Political economy Underwriting Self-governance Government United States Finance Ocean commerce Merchants Age of Revolution At first glance, the events of the preceding pages seem like a straightforward...

... over the twentieth century and their connection to the evolution of Puerto Rico's economy and politics since 1898. In particular, the book examines issues such as clashes over Americanization in the early 1900s, the debates on Puerto Rican identity in the 1930s, and the “institutionalization” of Puerto...

...This chapter examines the United States' colonization of Puerto Rico in 1898 and its immediate consequences for island politics, economy, and society. After a brief background that led to the signing of the Treaty of Paris requiring Spain to cede Puerto Rico to the United States, it describes...

...This chapter examines the transformation of Puerto Rico's economy between 1898 and 1934 under U.S. rule. It begins by looking at the advent of “free trade” between Puerto Rico and the United States, made possible by the passage of the Foraker Act of 1900, and its impact on industries as well...

...Puerto Rico's history in the American Century can be divided into four periods that closely coincide with the phases of the U.S. and world capitalist economies since the mid-1890s. Due to the island's status as a possession of but not part of the United States, the Puerto Rican economy...

... forces combined to determine the ultimate fate of the region: the rise of the global cotton economy, the international battles over slavery that followed, and the struggles of competing governments to control the territory. Cotton Kirkham James Louisiana Marian enslaved man Martínez Antonio...

...After taking control of the central state apparatus in Santo Domingo, Toussaint attempted to create a profitable plantation economy by imposing restrictive labor regimes on former slaves and offering economic incentives to plantation entrepreneurs. This chapter details the efficacy of these efforts...

.... Some of the earnings from cotton growing were invested in other phases of the cotton economy, and so the families with the largest cotton holdings also came to own gins, insecticide dealerships, textile mills, vegetable-oil factories, financial corporations, and other related companies. Cotton exports...

...This chapter focuses on the case of Hawaii. Like California, Australia, and South Africa, the case of Hawaii shows how technical and capitalist growth guided infrastructural development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Pulling Hawaii into a global economy via American imperialism...