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Work, Class, and Power in the Borderlands of the Early American Pacific - The Labors of Empire (Hardcover)
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Work, Class, and Power in the Borderlands of the Early American Pacific - The Labors of Empire (Hardcover)
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This book traces the history of working people who helped
established the foundation of the American empire in the Pacific
from its origins after the American Revolution to its coming of age
in the 1840s and 1850s. Beginning with the expeditions of the
Columbia and the Lady Washington, Lampe argues that the early
American Pacific can best be considered through the interaction of
four major locations, connected through the networks of trade: the
merchant ship, the Northwest Coast, Honolulu, and Canton
(Guangzhou). In each of these locations, the labors of a diverse
population of working people was harnessed in the critical labors
of empire building, including the transportation of goods. The
central question that the consideration of working people in the
Pacific economy during this period is, Lampe argues, the role of
power applied on these laborers by an international capitalist
class, emerging alongside the Pacific commercial empires. Lampe
also finds that this power was not uncontested and emerged in
response to the activities of labor. Working people, on the ship
and in the port cities, found ways to secure their piece of the
profitable trade, often through illicit means.
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