The Dig: Building an American Empire with Paul Frymer

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🗓️ 31 January 2018

⏱️ 101 minutes

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We are living on land from which indigenous people, over hundreds of years, have been violently removed. Almost everyone knows this — yet it’s rarely mentioned in stories that Americans tell themselves about who we are as a country and how we got here. Dan’s guest is Paul Frymer, a professor of politics and director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University. In his recent book, Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion, he provides a close study of the empire America built in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth century, a project of geographic expansion facilitated and also limited by the demands of racial engineering. Thanks to Verso Books. Check out The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots and Class Conflicts in the American West by Mark A. Lause versobooks.com/books/2592-the-great-cowboy-strike. And from University of California Press, Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World by Isa Blumi ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520296145!

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0:00.0	This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon and by Verso Books,
0:06.9	which has loads of great left-wing titles perfect for dig listeners like you.
0:16.5	One that you might like is the Great Cowboy Strike, Bullets, Ballots and Class Conflicts in the American West, by Mark A Laos. In the pantheon the independent, solitary, and stowical. In reality, cowboys were grossly exploited and
0:37.2	underpaid seasonal workers who responded to the abuses of their employers in a series of militant strikes.
0:45.4	Their resistance arose from the rise and demise of a beef bananza that attracted international
0:50.2	capital.
0:51.2	Business interests approached the market with the expectation that it would have the same freedom
0:55.9	to brutally impose its will as it had exercised on Native peoples and recently emancipated
1:01.4	African Americans.
1:03.0	These assumptions contributed to a series of bitter and violent range wars
1:08.0	which broke out from Texas to Montana
1:11.0	and framed the appearance of labor conflicts in the region. These social tensions
1:15.8	stirred a series of political insurgencies that became virtually endemic to
1:20.0	the American West of the Gilded Age.
1:23.2	Mark A Laos explores the relationship between these neglected labor
1:27.1	conflicts, the range wars, and the third party movements.
1:31.5	The Great Cowboy Strike subverts American mythology to reveal the class
1:36.3	abuses and inequalities that have blinded a nation to its true history and nature.
1:41.5	The Great Cowboy Strike, Bullets, and Class Conflicts in the American
1:46.8	West, by Mark A Laos. Out now from Verso Books. Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine.
2:00.0	My name is Daniel Denver and I'm
2:06.1	broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. In the United States today, there's nothing simultaneously ubiquitous and invisible, like Empire.
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