| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 374 pages) |
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Culture, Labor, History |
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Culture, labor, history.
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| Contents |
Cover ; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Through the Looking Glass: U.S. Empire through the Lens of Labor History; PART I. SOLIDARITIES AND RESISTANCE; 1. The Wages of Empire: Capitalism, Expansionism, and Working-Class Formation; 2. Revolutionary Currents: Interracial Solidarities, Imperial Japan, and the U.S. Empire; 3. The Secret Soldiers' Union: Labor and Soldier Politics in the Philippine Scout Mutiny of 1924; 4. The Photos That We Don't Get to See: Sovereignties, Archives, and the 1928 Massacre of Banana Workers in Colombia; PART II. INTIMACIES IN COLONIAL SPACES |
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5. Sexual Labor and the U.S. Military Empire: Comparative Analysis of Europe and East Asia6. Making Aloha: Lei and the Cultural Labor of Hospitality; PART III. MIGRATION AND MOBILIZING LABOR FOR THE EMPIRE; 7. The Advantages of Empire: Chinese Servants and Conflicts over Settler Domesticity in the "White Pacific," 1870-1900; 8. Empire and the Moving Body: Fermin Tobera, Military California, and Rural Space; 9. Slavery's Stale Soil: Indentured Labor, Guestworkers, and the End of Empire; PART IV. IMPERIAL LABOR AND CONTROL IN THE TROPICS |
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10. The Colonization of Antislavery and the Americanization of Empires: The Labor of Autonomy and the Labor of Subordination in Togo and the United States11. Progressive Empire: Race and Tropicality in United Fruit's Central America; 12. What Is Imperial about Coffee? Rethinking "Informal Empire"; 13. Home Land (In)security: The Labor of U.S. Cold War Military Empire in the Marshall Islands; About the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Summary |
Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men and women at the center of the long history of the U.S. empire, these essays offer new stories of empire that intersect with the "grand narratives" of diplomatic affairs at the national and international levels. Missile defense, Cold War showdowns, development politics, military combat, tourism, and |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Labor -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
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Imperialism -- Economic aspects
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LAW -- Labor & Employment.
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Diplomatic relations
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Imperialism -- Economic aspects
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International economic relations
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United States -- Foreign economic relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140052
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United States -- Foreign relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140058
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bender, Daniel E
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Lipman, Jana K
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| ISBN |
9781479822843 |
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1479822841 |
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