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This looks like an important historical reconstruction, unearthing
another way that Africa has been the North's useful tool.
Last week I happened to be on a panel at a Marseille conference with a
comrade - Peo Hansen - who has a very similar view about the Eurafrica
side of this story:
https://books.google.com/books/about/Eurafrica.html?id=-FuCBAAAQBAJ
On 2017/10/20 07:11 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:
American Danger: United States Empire, Eurafrica, and the
Territorialization of Industrial Capitalism, 1870–1950 Sven
Beckert
The American Historical Review, Volume 122, Issue 4, 1 October 2017,
Pages 1137–1170, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/122.4.1137
During the last third of the nineteenth century, a debate emerged in a
number of European countries on the “American danger.” Responding to
the rapid rise of the United States as the world’s most important
economy, some European observers feared their nations’ declining
competitiveness in the face of the territorial extent of the United
States, and its ability to integrate a dynamic industrial sector with
ample raw material supplies, agriculture commodities, markets, and
labor into one national economy. This “second great divergence”
provoked a range of responses, as statesmen, capitalists, and
intellectuals advocated for territorial rearrangements of various
European economies, a discussion that lasted with greater or lesser
intensity from the 1870s to the 1950s. Their sometimes competing and
sometimes mutually reinforcing efforts focused on African colonialism,
European integration, and violent territorial expansion within Europe
itself. Using the debate as a lens to understand the connections
between a wide range of policy responses, this article argues that
efforts to territorialize capitalist economies delineate a particular
moment in the long history of capitalism; and it demonstrates the
unsettling effects of the rise of the United States on European powers.
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