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Author Driscoll, Mark (Mark W.), author.

Title The whites are enemies of heaven : climate Caucasianism and Asian ecological protection / Mark W. Driscoll
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 367 pages) : illustrations
Contents The Speed Race(r) and the Stopped, Incarce-Races -- J-hād against "Gorge-Us" White Men -- Ecclesiastical Superpredators -- Intertext I. White Dude's Burden (The Indifference That Makes a Difference) -- Queer Parenting -- Levelry and Revelry (Inside the Gelaohui Opium Room) -- Intertext II. Madame Butterfly and "Negro Methods" in China -- Last Samurai/First Extractive Capitalist -- Blow(Opium Smoke)back: The Third War for Drugs in Sichuan -- Conclusion. "Undermining" China and &bject Orient
Summary "Mark W. Driscoll examines Western imperialism in East Asia throughout the nineteenth century and the devastating effects of what he calls climate caucasianism--the West's racialized pursuit of capital at the expense of people of color, women, and the environment."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Imperialism -- Environmental aspects -- China
Imperialism -- Economic aspects -- China
Imperialism -- Environmental aspects -- Japan
Imperialism -- Economic aspects -- Japan
Imperialism -- Sociological aspects
HISTORY / Asia / General
Imperialism -- Economic aspects
SUBJECT China -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024087
Japan -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069480
Subject China
Japan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020018212
ISBN 9781478012740
1478012749