Pacific Connections Kornel S Chang by Kornel S. Chang 9780520271685, 9780520271692, 0520271688, 0520271696, 2011053509 instant download after payment.

""Pacific Connections" is a shrewd, fascinating, and cogent examination of a Pacific Northwest borderland often taken for granted as a peaceful but inconsequential meeting point between two friendly nations. Chang shows instead how it has been a violent point of contention, shaped by empire and Anglo-American aspirations to hegemony, migration and ubiquitous racism, the creation of boundaries through state formation, and the transgression of those boundaries by the mechanisms of capital. Sharply written and deeply researched, this book brings the Pacific Northwest into both the history of the Pacific World and the literature on borderlands that has until now focused largely on the U.S. and Mexico. "Pacific Connections" is a brilliant achievement."--Bruce Cumings, author of "Dominion From Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power." "This wonderful book combines impressive archival research with a strong grounding in migration studies, political economy, cultural studies, and critical race studies. Chang examines weighty questions through compelling human dramas set in far-flung places across the Pacific Rim. This is transnational history at its best."--David Roediger, coauthor of "The Production of Difference." "Kornel Chang grapples with big ideas and big questions. Tracing the global movements behind racial and national borders and unraveling the messy contradictions of empire at the dawn of the twentieth century, "Pacific Connections" explores a history that continues to haunt us, with particular resonance in our current moment."--Moon-Ho Jung, author of "Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation." ""Pacific Connections" is a capacious study that recasts the U.S.-Canadian borderlands as a crucial site of migration, trade, and exclusion within the formation of Pacific empire. Chang shows how Chinese merchants, Japane

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