| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
WORK, CLASS, AND POWER IN THE BORDERLANDS OF THE EARLY AMERICAN PACIFIC -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Looking at the China Trade from Above and from Below -- 2 Power, Resistance, and Culture on the American Pacific Merchant Ship -- 3 The Sea Otter Fur Trade on the Northwest Coast of America: Trade, Work, and Power -- 4 Stephen Reynolds in Honolulu: Community and Class in a Pacific Port -- 5 The Canton Gated Community: Workers, Elite, and the China Trade -- 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
| Summary |
This book explores the nature of power and labor in the early American Pacific from the perspective of sailors, merchants, and the people they encounters across the Pacific. By looking at Honolulu, the merchant ship, Canton, the Whampoa anchorage and the northwest coast, this book considers the broader Pacific while not losing sight of the experiences of the individual sailors, laborers, and port-city denizens |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Labor -- Pacific Area -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Commerce
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Diplomatic relations
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Labor
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| SUBJECT |
Pacific Area -- Commerce -- United States
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United States -- Commerce -- Pacific Area
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Pacific Area -- History
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Pacific Area -- Foreign relations -- United States
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Pacific Area
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| Subject |
Pacific Area
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780739182420 |
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0739182420 |
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