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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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.