TY - JOUR
AU - Mittelstadt, Jennifer
AB - Book Reviews 1013 talism’s ceaseless drive for profit. Rather than the rest of the twentieth century. Rather than simply collecting tribute and wealth, as did calling this process “assimilation,” Okihiro earlier empires, modern empires have restrucstr - esses the economic, social, and culture sub- tured their colonial economies to serve the servience that was reinforced by racial segrega- empires’ resource, labor, and market needs. tion and desires for inclusion. Next, to discuss Wealth extraction, arrested development of in- the role of war in forging the modern world dustry, and privatization of common resources system, Okihiro covers the same chronology reduced the once-independent areas of Africa, and geographies of the preceding chapters in Asia, Oceania, and the Americas to peripher- section 4, “Wars and Realignments.” Its chap- ies that enriched and developed the core. This ters trace the effects of twentieth-century U.S. fabricated asymmetry—a worldwide moder- wars, and capitalist, postcolonial, and social re- nity of unequal exchanges—required violence, alignment from the post–World War II era to state power, legal regimes, and ideologies that the present. naturalized inequality. People were not will- Okihiro’s spatial organization highlights ingly pushed off their land, nor did they will- how position (geographic and putative) and 
TI - The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.1093/jahist/jaw511
DA - 2017-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-war-on-alcohol-prohibition-and-the-rise-of-the-american-state-IFXJHUdMyP
SP - 1013
EP - 1015
VL - 103
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -