Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-233) and index.
Introduction: the new Jews: settler colonialism and the personification of capitalism -- Sex, time, and the transcontinental railroad: Abstract labor and the queer temporalities of history -- Unnatural landscapes: Romantic anticapitalism and alien degeneracy -- Japanese internment and the mutation of labor -- The new nineteenth century: Neoliberal borders, the city, and the logic of settler colonial capitalism -- Epilogue: the revenge of the iron chink