Pacific Connections

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-520-27169-2
Verlag: University Of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 34, 264 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 442 g

Reihe: American Crossroads

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, Chang reveals the messiness of imperial formation and the struggles it spawned from multiple locations and through different actors across the Pacific world. Pacific Connections is the winner of the Outstanding Book in History award from the Association for Asian American Studies and is a finalist for the John Hope Franklin Book Prize from the American Studies Association.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chang, Kornel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1 • Brokering Empire: The Making of a Chinese Transnational Managerial Elite
2 • Contracting Between Empires: Imperial Labor Circuits in the Pacific
3 • Circulating Race and Empire: White Labor Activism and the Transnational Politics of Anti-Asian Agitation
4 • Pacific Insurgencies: Revolution, Resistance, and the Recuperation of Asian Manhood
5 • Policing Migrants and Militants: In Defense of Nation and Empire in the Borderlands
Epilogue and Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kornel Chang is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in Newark.