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Pacific connections : the making of the U.S.-Canadian borderlands /
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 cros...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2012.
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| Colección: | American crossroads ;
34. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 271 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520951549 0520951549 1280492007 9781280492006 9786613587237 6613587230 |