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Across empires : taking U.S. history into transimperial terrain
Title
Across empires : taking U.S. history into transimperial terrain / edited by Kristin Hoganson and Jay Sexton.
ISBN
1478007435
9781478007432
147800603X
1478006943
9781478006039
9781478006947
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 349 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Summary
"The goal of ACROSS EMPIRES is to add nuance and scope to strands of transnationalism that neglect the imperial dimensions of border-crossing histories and the imperial origins of modern globality. While embracing the fundamental premise of transnationality-the value of following historical subjects wherever they lead--this collection suggests that transnational analysis can distort the past when used too broadly, because transnationality is premised on state-to-state interactions and firmly bordered states. It is often insufficient to reflect the exchange of peoples, goods, ideas, and services across multiple empires or the layered experiences of communities within overlapping empires. The essays likewise underscore the need to provide a broad perspective on asymmetric power relations and to place the histories of particular imperial formations in the larger context of global history, which through World War II meant a world dominated by imperial powers. The essays were crafted after the Brexit referendum and during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign and its aftershocks. These events were, in part, products of the imperial entanglements that have given modern globalization its distinctive form: economic inequality; ethnic, racial, gender, and cultural tensions; immigration; and geopolitical rivalries. In this age of conflict over the terms of global integration, it is fruitful to reassess imperial inheritances."--Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
e-Duke books scholarly collection 2020.
Other formats
Print version: Across empires. Durham : Duke University Press, 2019
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 08, 2021
Series
American encounters / global interactions
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
In pursuit of profit
Fur sealing and unsettled sovereignties / John Soluri
Crossing the Rift: American steel and colonial labor in Britain's East Africa protectorate / Stephen Tuffnell
Transimperial politics 'our indian empire': the transimperial origins of U.S. liberal imperialism / Michel Gobat
Empire, democracy, and discipline: the transimperial history of the secret ballot / Julian Go
Medicine to drug: opium's transimperial journey / Anne L. Foster
Governing structures
One service, three systems, many empires: the U.S. Consular Service and the growth of U.S. global power, 1789-1924 / Nicole M. Phelps
Transimperial roots of American anti-imperialism: the Transatlantic radicalism of free trade, 1846-1920 / Marc-William Palen
The permeable South: imperial interactivities in the Islamic Philippines, 1899-1930s / Oliver Charbonneau
Living transimperially
Liberian colonization and African American migration across Anglophone settler colonial empires / Ikuko Asaka
Entangled in empires: British Antillean migrations in the world of the Panama Canal / Julie Greene
World War II and the promise of normalcy: overlapping empires and everyday life in the Philippines / Genevieve Clutario
Resistance across empires
Fighting John Bull and uncle Sam: South Asian revolutionaries confront the modern state / Moon-Ho Jung
Indigenous child removal and transimperial indigenous women's activism across settler colonial nations in the late twentieth century / Margaret D. Jacobs.
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