Pacific Connections : The Making of the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands / / Kornel Chang

• Autore: Chang Kornel
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.1
• Soggetto topico: Canada -- Foreign economic relations -- Pacific area; Canada -- Territorial expansion; Globalization -- Economic aspects -- History; Imperialism; North America -- Economic integration; Pacific area -- Foreign economic relations -- Canada; Pacific area -- Foreign economic relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Pacific area; United States -- Territorial expansion; Imperialism - Economic aspects - History; Globalization; Regions & Countries - Americas; History & Archaeology; United States - General
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Pacific Connections
• ISBN: 1-280-49200-7; 9786613587237; 0-520-95154-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819962303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American Crossroads