The United States : an unequal regime born of slavery and colonization
International audience In Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology, the United States have an important place in the description of inegalitarian regimes, not only as part of a Western, North Atlantic space shared with Europe, but also because of its slave and colonial heritage. Slavery is considered i...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:halshs-03605635v1 2023-07-02T03:33:09+02:00 The United States : an unequal regime born of slavery and colonization Estados Unidos : un régimen desigual nacido de la esclavitud y la colonización Les États-Unis : un régime inégalitaire issu de l’esclavagisme et de la colonisation Perez Tisserant, Emmanuelle France, Amériques, Espagne – Sociétés, pouvoirs, acteurs (FRAMESPA) Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J) Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2021-11-16 https://shs.hal.science/halshs-03605635 https://doi.org/10.3917/rhmc.684.0049 en eng HAL CCSD Societe D'histoire Moderne et Contemporaine info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.3917/rhmc.684.0049 halshs-03605635 https://shs.hal.science/halshs-03605635 doi:10.3917/rhmc.684.0049 ISSN: 0048-8003 EISSN: 1776-3045 Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine https://shs.hal.science/halshs-03605635 Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, 2021, 68-4 (4), pp.47-55. ⟨10.3917/rhmc.684.0049⟩ [SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2021 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.3917/rhmc.684.0049 2023-06-11T00:42:19Z International audience In Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology, the United States have an important place in the description of inegalitarian regimes, not only as part of a Western, North Atlantic space shared with Europe, but also because of its slave and colonial heritage. Slavery is considered in the book as an extreme form of inequality, which also underlines the sacralization of property, but above all perhaps as an institution intrinsic to the construction of modern capitalism. The territorial expansion of the United States, on the other hand, was possible through the deportation of pre-existing populations or the restriction to their access to land and other resources. The seizure of these resources allowed a large number of American settlers, but also European immigrants, to gain access to the ownership and exploitation of the land, while at the same time, through their sale, the budget of the State was bolstered, a state that was also strengthened by the means necessary for the war against the natives. Taking together the question of slavery and that of the territorial expansion of the United States has the potential to better account for the unequal regime of this country and to note resonances with the other national, colonial and post-colonial terrains studied in the book. This perspective also makes it possible to show that the problem of inequality, presented as a kind of universal, comes into tension with the question of sovereignty, of decisions related to access to and management of resources, which is crucial in the world in transition that we know today. En Capital e ideología de Thomas Piketty, Estados Unidos ocupa un lugar importante en la descripción de los regímenes desiguales, no sólo por su inclusión en un espacio occidental y noratlántico común a Europa, sino también por su herencia esclavista y colonial. La esclavitud es vista en el libro como una forma extrema de desigualdad, que también subraya la sacralización de la propiedad, pero quizás lo más importante es que es vista como ... Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Revue d’histoire moderne & contemporaine n° 68-4 4 47 55 |
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International audience In Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology, the United States have an important place in the description of inegalitarian regimes, not only as part of a Western, North Atlantic space shared with Europe, but also because of its slave and colonial heritage. Slavery is considered in the book as an extreme form of inequality, which also underlines the sacralization of property, but above all perhaps as an institution intrinsic to the construction of modern capitalism. The territorial expansion of the United States, on the other hand, was possible through the deportation of pre-existing populations or the restriction to their access to land and other resources. The seizure of these resources allowed a large number of American settlers, but also European immigrants, to gain access to the ownership and exploitation of the land, while at the same time, through their sale, the budget of the State was bolstered, a state that was also strengthened by the means necessary for the war against the natives. Taking together the question of slavery and that of the territorial expansion of the United States has the potential to better account for the unequal regime of this country and to note resonances with the other national, colonial and post-colonial terrains studied in the book. This perspective also makes it possible to show that the problem of inequality, presented as a kind of universal, comes into tension with the question of sovereignty, of decisions related to access to and management of resources, which is crucial in the world in transition that we know today. En Capital e ideología de Thomas Piketty, Estados Unidos ocupa un lugar importante en la descripción de los regímenes desiguales, no sólo por su inclusión en un espacio occidental y noratlántico común a Europa, sino también por su herencia esclavista y colonial. La esclavitud es vista en el libro como una forma extrema de desigualdad, que también subraya la sacralización de la propiedad, pero quizás lo más importante es que es vista como ... |
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