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University of California Press
- Pacific Connections: The Making of the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: University of California Press
- Series: American Crossroads
summary
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. In Pacific 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 processes of imperial integration, their project fractured under its contradictions. Migrant workers and radical activists pursued a transnational politics through the very networks that made empire possible. Charting the U.S.-Canadian borderlands from above and below, Pacific Connections reveals the messiness of imperial formation and the struggles it spawned from multiple locations and through different actors across the Pacific world.
Table of Contents
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- Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-16
- Introduction
- pp. 1-16
- 1. Brokering Empire
- pp. 17-53
- 2. Contracting Between Empires
- pp. 54-88
- 3. Circulating Race and Empire
- pp. 89-116
- 4. Pacific Insurgencies
- pp. 117-146
- 5. Policing Migrants and Militants
- pp. 147-178
- Epilogue and Conclusion
- pp. 179-192
- Bibliography
- pp. 237-252
- Other Works in the Series, Production Notes
- pp. 287-290
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520951549
Related ISBN(s)
9780520271692
MARC Record
OCLC
797821647
Pages
264
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No