Author: Steve Fraser File Type: epub A collection of essays on class politics in America In popular retellings of American history, capitalism generally doesnt feature much as part of the founding or development of the nation. Instead, it is alluded to in figurative terms as opportunity, entrepreneurial vigor, material abundance, and the seven-league boots of manifest destiny. In this collection of essays, Steve Fraser, the preeminent historian of American capitalism, sets the record straight, rewriting the arc of the American saga with class conflict center stage and mounting a serious challenge to the consoling fantasy of American exceptionalism. From the colonial era to Trump, Fraser recovers the repressed history of debtors prisons and disaster capitalism, of confidence men and the reserve armies of the unemployed. In language that is dynamic and compelling, he demonstrates that class is a fundamental feature of American political life and provides essential intellectual tools for a shrew reading of American history.Review Fraser is our preeminent historian of America as a capitalist civilization. No one is more attuned to the inner vibrations of our monied culture. Corey Robin, author of *The Reactionary Mind* A spirited collection by an erudite and penetrating essayist. Fraser is an analyst of the culture of late capitalism and, among other things, he demonstrates with impressive clarity the connections between the economic changes we call neoliberalism and the psycho-cultural dramas generated by the siren song of faux populism. Frances Fox Piven, author of *Poor Peoples Movements* Steve Fraser is our most incisive and encompassing cultural historian of the two gilded ages that structured American society and its economic ethos in the decades that have bracketed the nations fleeting New Deal interregnum. Fraser has captured the emotive logic of capitalist hegemony and the dark appeal it has so often held for millions of acquiescent Americans. Nelson Lichtenstein, author of *Who Built America?* In this collection of bracing essays, Fraser brings to the fore the perils and promise of class warfare and the daunting challenges faced by everyone who hopes to defy history and work for a just society. Jacqueline Jones, author of *Goddess of Anarchy* These essays show that Steve Fraser has long been one of the wisest and most eloquent historians of American capitalism and its discontents. Erudite, passionate, and laced with wit, they are essential reading during our era of great perils and budding hopes for change. Michael Kazin, Professor of History, Georgetown University About the Author Steve Fraser is a historian, writer, and editor. He is the author of The Age of Acquiescence, Every Man a Speculator and Wall Street , among other books, and has written for the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and The Nation. He lives in New York City.

Author: Douglas W. Portmore File Type: pdf Commonsense Consequentialism is a book about morality, rationality, and the interconnections between the two. In it, Douglas W. Portmore defends a version of consequentialism that both comports with our commonsense moral intuitions and shares with other consequentialist theories the same compelling teleological conception of practical reasons. Broadly construed, consequentialism is the view that an acts deontic status is determined by how its outcome ranks relative to those of the available alternatives on some evaluative ranking. Portmore argues that outcomes should be ranked, not according to their impersonal value, but according to how much reason the relevant agent has to desire that each outcome obtains and that, when outcomes are ranked in this way, we arrive at a version of consequentialism that can better account for our commonsense moral intuitions than even many forms of deontology can. Whats more, Portmore argues that we should accept this version of consequentialism, because we should accept both that an agent can be morally required to do only what she has most reason to do and that what she has most reason to do is to perform the act that would produce the outcome that she has most reason to want to obtain. Although the primary aim of the book is to defend a particular moral theory (viz., commonsense consequentialism), Portmore defends this theory as part of a coherent whole concerning our commonsense views about the nature and substance of both morality and rationality. Thus, it will be of interest not only to those working on consequentialism and other areas of normative ethics, but also to those working in metaethics. Beyond offering an account of morality, Portmore offers accounts of practical reasons, practical rationality, and the objectivesubjective obligation distinction.**

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Author: Mohammad A. Chaichian File Type: pdf Why do empires build walls and fences? Are they for defensive purposes only, to keep the barbarians at the gate or do they also function as complex offensive military structures to subjugate and control the colonized? Are the colonized subjects also capable of erecting barriers to shield themselves from colonial onslaughts? InEmpires and WallsMohammad A. Chaichian meticulously examines the rise and fall of the walls that are no longer around as well as impending fate of neo-liberal barriers that imperial and colonial powers have erected in the new Millennium. Based on four years of extensive historical and field-based research Chaichian provides compelling evidence that regardless of their rationale and functions, walls always signal the fading power of an empire. Table of Contents List of Photos, Figures and Tables Foreword by David Fasenfest Preface ol lWalls, Borders and Imperial Formations Borders, Walls and Globalization l ol PART I THE IMPERIAL WALLS THAT ARE NO LONGER AROUND ol l Hadrians Wall an Ill-Fated Strategy for Tribal Management in Roman Britain Geopolitics of Hadrians Wall Why Did Hadrian Build the Wall? Hadrians Wall Beginning of the End? l l Red Snake The Great Wall of Gorgan, Iran Was the Red Snake a defensive Wall? The Walls Architecture The Walls associated hydraulic structures and functions The Red Snake as a Yet Unsolved Enigma l l Clash of Empires Prelude to the Berlin Wall The Rise and Fall of the German Empire Preparing Germans for Occupation, 1945-1947 Emergence of the Two Germanys under Occupation, 1947-1949 Post-War Dependent Development of a Divided and Occupied Germany l l Build the Wall The Two German Economies are Now United! The Walls Architecture Was the Wall a Sign of East Germanys Weakness? Concluding Remarks l ol PART II ANTI-IMPERIALIST WALLS ol lDismantling the Defensive Wall of the Colonized The Islamic Hijab in France The French Colonial Presence in North Africa French Republicanism and the Problematic Collective Identity Muslim Immigrants in France Social Spheres and the Maghrebi Muslim Identity Hijab as the Last Defensive Tool of the Colonized Conclusion l ol PART III NEO-COLONIAL WALLS ol l An Empire in the Making American Colonial Interests South of the Border Migration of Mexicans to the United States Maquiladoras, NAFTA, and the Evolution of Twin Cities along the U.S.-Mexico Border The Border is No Longer Long Live the Border! l l The Great Offensive Wall of Mexico Border Blues Erecting the Offensive Barrier, or The Great Wall of Mexico The FenceWall Architecture Is the Border FenceWall Effective? Notes from the Field l l Israel and Palestine a Settler Colony is Born Israel The Birth of a Nation Advancement of Zionist Settler Colonies in Palestine under British Occupation Zionist Colonization and the Land Question in Palestine l l Bantustans, Maquiladoras, and the Separation Barrier Israeli Style Israels First Expansion Phase, 1947-1949 Israels Second Expansion Phase, 1949-1967 Israels Third Expansion Phase, 1967-1991 The Second Intifada Prelude to the WallFence Israels Final Expansionist Offensive The Separation Barrier The Separation Barriers Architecture The Two Economies Are Now Fully Integrated Erect the Separation Barrier! A Villa in the Jungle? From Jabotinskys Iron Wall to the Separation Barrier l l Epilogue Conceptualizing Walls and borders--Globalization from Within Post-Wall Berlin l ol References Index **