Converging Empires (eBook)

Citizens and Subjects in the North Pacific Borderlands, 1867–1945

Andrea Geiger (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
368 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-6784-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Making a vital contribution to our understanding of North American borderlands history through its examination of the northernmost stretches of the U.S.-Canada border, Andrea Geiger highlights the role that the North Pacific borderlands played in the construction of race and citizenship on both sides of the international border from 1867, when the United States acquired Russia's interests in Alaska, through the end of World War II. Imperial, national, provincial, territorial, reserve, and municipal borders worked together to create a dynamic legal landscape that both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people negotiated in myriad ways as they traversed these borderlands. Adventurers, prospectors, laborers, and settlers from Europe, Canada, the United States, Latin America, and Asia made and remade themselves as they crossed from one jurisdiction to another. Within this broader framework, Geiger pays particular attention to the ways in which Japanese migrants and the Indigenous people who had made this borderlands region their home for millenniaTlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian among othersnegotiated the web of intersecting boundaries that emerged over time, charting the ways in which they infused these reconfigured national, provincial, and territorial spaces with new meanings.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.6.2022
• Reihe/Serie: The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
• Reihe/Serie: The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
• Zusatzinfo: 17 halftones, 4 maps
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Alaska HIstory • alaska native • Aleut removal/evacuation in Alaska during World War II • Arichika Ikeda • Borders and borderlands in North America • British Columbia History • Canada-US border • Canadian west • contact relations • Haida Gwaii • imperial and colonial history of North America • imprisonment of Aleut in Japan during World War II • Japanese-American internment/incarceration/ forced removal from the Pacific coast during World War II • Japanese-Canadian internment/incarceration/forced removal from the BC coast during World War II • Japanese immigration history (Canada and the United States) • Metlakatla, Alaska • Metlakatla, BC • Pacific World • Tlingit • transpacific migration • tsimshian • US-Canada border • U.S. West
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-6784-3 / 1469667843
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-6784-3 / 9781469667843