Pacific Connections The Making of the U. S. -Canadian Borderlands

Name: Pacific Connections The Making of the U. S. -Canadian Borderlands
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ISBN: 9780520271692

ISBN-10: 0520271696

ISBN-13: 9780520271692

Edition: 2012

Authors: Kornel Chang

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In the late nineteenth century the borderlands between the United States, the British Empire in Canada, and the Asia-Pacific Rim emerged as a crossroads of the Pacific world. InPacific Connections, Kornel Chang tells the dramatic stories of the laborers, merchants, smugglers, and activists who crossed these borders into the twentieth century, and the American and British empire-builders who countered them by hardening racial and national lines. But even as settler societies attempted to control the terms of global integration, their project fractured under its contradictions. Migrant workers and radical activists pursued a transnational politics through the very networks that made empire…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/12/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Kornel Changis Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in Newark.



Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Brokering Empire: The Making of a Chinese Transnational Managerial Elite



Contracting Between Empires: Imperial Labor Circuits in the Pacific



Circulating Race and Empire: White Labor Activism and the Transnational Politics of Anti-Asian Agitation



Pacific Insurgencies: Revolution, Resistance, and the Recuperation of Asian Manhood



Policing Migrants and Militants: In Defense of Nation and Empire in the Borderlands


Epilogue and Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index