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While industrial states competed to colonize Asia and Africa in the nineteenth century, conversion to Christianity was replaced by a civilizing mission. This new secular impetus strode hand in hand with racial capitalism in the age of empires: a terrestrial paradise was to be achieved through accumulation and the ravaging of nature.
Far from a defence of religion, The States of the Earth argues that phenomena such as evangelism and political Islam are best understood as products of empire and secularization. In a world where material technology was considered divine, religious and secular forces both tried to achieve Heaven on Earth by destroying Earth itself.
Contents
Preface to the English-language edition
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Introduction
1. The Republic Converts to Islam: The French Expedition to Egypt and Its Afterlives
2. Giving Birth to the Universal: How the Colonization of Africa Secularized Europe
3. Race and the Inconvertible: On Apartheid in North Africa
4. Anatomy of the Fossil State: Geopolitics of Climate in Europe and Beyond
5. Gospels of the Reich: Th e Eastern Question and the Jewish Question
6. A Circle of Returns: Towards a Critique of Imperiality
Epilogue
Index
