Settler colonialism rides on the back of a train: Ned Blackhawk, ‘The Tracks of Settler Colonialism’, Reviews in American History, 47, 4, 2019, pp. 564-571 | settler colonial studies blog

Settler colonialism rides on the back of a train: Ned Blackhawk, ‘The Tracks of Settler Colonialism’, Reviews in American History, 47, 4, 2019, pp. 564-571

20Dec19

Excerpt: The early twenty-first century has witnessed a surge of scholarly interests in the dominant technology of nineteenth-century American expansion: the railroad. Over the past decade, railway histories have reinvigorated debates about the incorporation of America, the growth of the federal government, and the conquest of Native America. As a growing cadre of historians of American infrastructure have identified, railways helped to drive and determine U.S. state formation.

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