Pacific America: Histories of Transoceanic Crossings 9780824855796
In recent times, the Asia-Pacific region has far surpassed Europe in terms of reciprocal trade with the United States, a
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Table of contents :
CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction: Integrating the Pacific
Part I. China and Ocean Worlds
1. A Very Long Early Modern? Asia and Its Oceans, 1000–1850
2. Transatlantic and Transpacific Connections in Early American History
Part II. Circuits and Diaspora
3. The Pacific Ocean as Highway to Gold Mountain: The Hong Kong Connection, 1850–1900
4. Pop Gingle’s Cold War
5. Chinese and American Collaborations through Educational Exchange during the Era of Exclusion, 1872–1955
6. Japanese Reinvention of Self through Hawai‘i’s Japanese Americans
7. Fighting the Postwar in Little Saigon
Part III. Racism and Imperialism
8. Transpacific Accommodation and the Defense of Asian Immigrants
9. Kilsoo Haan, American Intelligence, and the Anticipated Japanese Invasion of California, 1931–1943
10. Transpacific Adoption: The Korean War, US Missionaries, and Cold War Liberalism
11. Inter-Imperial Relations, the Pacific, and Asian American History
12. Japanese Immigrant Settler Colonialism and the Construction of a US National Security Regime against the Transborder “Yellow Peril”
Part IV. Islands and the Pacific Rim
13. How the Portuguese Became White: The Racial Politics of Pre-Annexation Hawai‘i
14. Who Closed the Sea? Archipelagoes of Amnesia between the United States and Japan
15. Japanese Commemorations of World War II in the Mariana Islands
Contributors
Index
CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction: Integrating the Pacific
Part I. China and Ocean Worlds
1. A Very Long Early Modern? Asia and Its Oceans, 1000–1850
2. Transatlantic and Transpacific Connections in Early American History
Part II. Circuits and Diaspora
3. The Pacific Ocean as Highway to Gold Mountain: The Hong Kong Connection, 1850–1900
4. Pop Gingle’s Cold War
5. Chinese and American Collaborations through Educational Exchange during the Era of Exclusion, 1872–1955
6. Japanese Reinvention of Self through Hawai‘i’s Japanese Americans
7. Fighting the Postwar in Little Saigon
Part III. Racism and Imperialism
8. Transpacific Accommodation and the Defense of Asian Immigrants
9. Kilsoo Haan, American Intelligence, and the Anticipated Japanese Invasion of California, 1931–1943
10. Transpacific Adoption: The Korean War, US Missionaries, and Cold War Liberalism
11. Inter-Imperial Relations, the Pacific, and Asian American History
12. Japanese Immigrant Settler Colonialism and the Construction of a US National Security Regime against the Transborder “Yellow Peril”
Part IV. Islands and the Pacific Rim
13. How the Portuguese Became White: The Racial Politics of Pre-Annexation Hawai‘i
14. Who Closed the Sea? Archipelagoes of Amnesia between the United States and Japan
15. Japanese Commemorations of World War II in the Mariana Islands
Contributors
Index
