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Author Chang, Kornel S., 1976- author.

Title Pacific connections : the making of the U.S.-Canadian borderlands / Kornel S. Chang
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 271 pages) : illustrations
Series American crossroads ; 34
American crossroads ; 34
Contents Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Table of 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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Imperialism.
Globalization -- Economic aspects -- History
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- General.
Globalization -- Economic aspects
Imperialism
International economic integration
International economic relations
Territorial expansion
SUBJECT United States -- Territorial expansion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140559
United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Pacific Area
Canada -- Territorial expansion
Canada -- Foreign economic relations -- Pacific Area
Pacific Area -- Foreign economic relations -- United States
Pacific Area -- Foreign economic relations -- Canada
North America -- Economic integration
United States -- Colonial question. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139972
Subject Canada
North America
Pacific Area
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520951549
0520951549
1280492007
9781280492006
9786613587237
6613587230