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"On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the Compañía de Santa Gertrudis -- the largest employer in the region, and a subsidiary of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company -- may have committed murder. The alert was first raised at six in the morning: a fire was tearing through the El Bordo mine. After a brief evacuation, the mouths of the shafts were sealed. Company representatives hastened to assert that "no more than ten" men remained inside the mineshafts, and that all ten were most certainly dead. Yet when the mine was opened six days later, the death toll was not ten, but eighty-seven. And there were seven survivors. A century later, acclaimed novelist Yuri Herrera has reconstructed a workers' tragedy at once globally resonant and deeply personal: Pachuca is his hometown. His work is an act of restitution for the victims and their families, bringing his full force of evocation to bear on the injustices that suffocated this horrific event into silence."--

Editor's note /Deborah Chasman & Joshua Cohen --The end of the end of history /Maximillian Alvarez --Banking on the Cold War /Nikhil Pal Singh --The welfare world /Adom Getachew --The absurd apocalypse /Arundhati Roy interview by Avni Sejpal --What white supremacists know /Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz --The sources of U.S. conduct /Stuart Schrader --Puerto Rico's war on its poor /Marisol LeBrón --Empire's racketeers /Pankaj Mishra interviewed by Wajahat Ali --Intellectuals against noticing /Jeanne Morefield --The burden of being good /Michael Kimmage --Quantifying love /Frank Pasquale --Monsters vs. empire /Mark Bould --Appendix 15, number 2.The agent probii exploration /Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman.

""All history," writes Maximillian Alvarez in his contribution, "is the history of empire--a bid for control of that greatest expanse of territory, the past." Evil Empire confronts these histories head-on, exploring the motivations, consequences, and surprising resiliency of empire and its narratives. Contributors grapple with the economic, technological, racial, and rhetorical elements of U.S. power and show how the effects are far-reaching and, in many ways, self-defeating. Drawing on a range of disciplines--from political science to science fiction--our authors approach the theme with imagination and urgency, animated by the desire to strengthen the fight for a better future."--Page 4 of cover