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Pacific Connections: The Making of the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands
Kornel Chang
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Paperback. 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. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 264 pages, 16 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396. The Making of the US-Canadian Borderlands. Series: American Crossroads. 264 pages, illustrations. 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. This book reveals the messiness of imperial formation and the struggles it spawned from multiple locations and through different actors across the Pacific world. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight: 396.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
American Crossroads
Condition
New
Weight
396g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520271692
SKU
V9780520271692
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About Kornel Chang
Kornel Chang is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in Newark.
Reviews for Pacific Connections: The Making of the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands
Excellent bibliography... Recommended.
B. Osborne, Queen's University at Kingston Choice
B. Osborne, Queen's University at Kingston Choice