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Pacific America - Histories of Transoceanic Crossings (Hardcover)
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In recent times, the Asia-Pacific region has far surpassed Europe
in terms of reciprocal trade with the United States, and since the
1980s immigrants from Asia entering the United States have exceeded
their counterparts from Europe, reversing a longstanding historical
trend and making Asian Americans the country’s fastest growing
racial group. What does transpacific history look like if the arc
of the story is extended to the present? The essays in this volume
offer answers to this question challenging current assumptions
about transpacific relations. Many of these assumptions are
expressed through fear: that the ascendance of China threatens a
U.S.-led world system and undermines domestic economies; that
immigrants subvert national unity; and that globalization, for all
its transcending of international, cultural, and racial
differences, generates its own forms of prejudice and social
divisions that reproduce global and national inequalities. The
contributors make clear that these fears associated with, and
induced by, pacific integration are not new. Rather, they are the
most recent manifestation of international, racial, and cultural
conflicts that have driven transpacific relations in its premodern
and especially modern iterations. Pacific America differs from
other books that are beginning to flesh out the transnational
history of the Pacific Ocean in that it is more self-consciously a
people’s history. While diplomatic and economic relations are
addressed, the chapters are particularly concerned with histories
from the “bottom up,” including attention to social relations
and processes, individual and group agency, racial and cultural
perception, and collective memory. These perspectives are embodied
in the four sections focusing on China and the early modern world,
circuits of migration and trade, racism and imperialism, and the
significance of Pacific islands. The last section on Pacific
Islanders avoids a common failing in popular perception that
focuses on both sides of the Pacific Ocean while overlooking the
many islands in between. The chapters in this section take on one
of the key challenges for transpacific history in connecting the
migration and imperial histories of the United States, Japan,
China, Korea, Vietnam, and other nations, with the history of
Oceania.
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