Pacific Connections

The Making of the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States
Cover of the book Pacific Connections by Kornel Chang, University of California Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Kornel Chang ISBN: 9780520951549
Publisher: University of California Press Publication: June 12, 2012
Imprint: University of California Press Language: English
Author: Kornel Chang
ISBN: 9780520951549
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication: June 12, 2012
Imprint: University of California Press
Language: English

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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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.

More books from University of California Press

Cover of the book Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965 by Kornel Chang
Cover of the book The Intimate Economies of Bangkok by Kornel Chang
Cover of the book Home Bound by Kornel Chang
Cover of the book Our Most Troubling Madness by Kornel Chang
Cover of the book Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print by Kornel Chang
Cover of the book Illegality, Inc. by Kornel Chang
Cover of the book Imperial Benevolence by Kornel Chang
Cover of the book While the City Sleeps by Kornel Chang
Cover of the book The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan by Kornel Chang
Cover of the book Music and the Elusive Revolution by Kornel Chang
Cover of the book Migra! by Kornel Chang
Cover of the book Race and the Invisible Hand by Kornel Chang
Cover of the book German Voices by Kornel Chang
Cover of the book The New Food Activism by Kornel Chang
Cover of the book A Half Century of Occupation by Kornel Chang
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy