Life in and against the OddsSomehow people continue to imagine a world of justice against the odds of a deck that has been stacked against them. In her urgent and perceptive book, Life in and against the Odds, Hoechst focuses on the particular circumstances and conditions of different phases of speculative expansion in the United States. She traces the roots of the nation state to nineteenth century land markets and slave exchanges. Hoechst also chronicles how these racial