Bücher online kaufen
Work, Class, and Power in the Borderlands of the Early American Pacific
-0 %
 |
| Der Artikel wird am Ende des Bestellprozesses zum Download zur Verfügung gestellt. |
Artikel-Nr:
9780739182420
Veröffentl:
2013
Seiten:
226
Autor:
Evan Lampe
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This book explores the nature of power and labor in the early American Pacific from the perspective of sailors, merchants, and the people they encounters across the Pacific. By looking at Honolulu, the merchant ship, Canton, the Whampoa anchorage and the northwest coast, this book considers the broader Pacific while not losing sight of the experiences of the individual sailors, laborers, and port-city denizens.
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.
Chapter 1: Introduction: Looking at the China Trade from Above and Below
Chapter 2: Power, Resistance, and Culture on the American Merchant Ship
Chapter 3: The Sea Otter Fur Trade on the Northwest Coast of America: Global Capitalism, Work, and Power
Chapter 4: Stephen Reynolds in Honolulu: Community and Class in a Pacific Port
Chapter 5: The Canton Gated Community: Workers, Elite, and the China Trade
Chapter 6: Conclusion
Chapter 2: Power, Resistance, and Culture on the American Merchant Ship
Chapter 3: The Sea Otter Fur Trade on the Northwest Coast of America: Global Capitalism, Work, and Power
Chapter 4: Stephen Reynolds in Honolulu: Community and Class in a Pacific Port
Chapter 5: The Canton Gated Community: Workers, Elite, and the China Trade
Chapter 6: Conclusion