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Named Person: | Labor; Imperialism |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Daniel E Bender; Jana K Lipman |
ISBN: | 9781479871254 1479871257 9781479856220 1479856223 |
OCLC Number: | 1276906294 |
Description: | vii, 374 p. ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Contents 1. The Wages of Empire: Capitalism, Expansionism, and Working-Class Formation 35 2. Revolutionary Currents: Interracial Solidarities, Imperial Japan, and the U.S. Empire 59 3. The Secret Soldiers' Union: Labor and Soldier Politics in the Philippine Scout Mutiny of 1924 85 4. The Photos That We Don't Get to See: Sovereignties, Archives, and the 1928 Massacre of Banana Workers in Colombia 104 5. Sexual Labor and the U.S. Military Empire: Comparative Analysis of Europe and East Asia 137 6. Making Aloha: Lei and the Cultural Labor of Hospitality 161 7. The Advantages of Empire: Chinese Servants and Conflicts over Settler Domesticity in the "White Pacific," 1870-1900 185 8. Empire and the Moving Body: Fermin Tobera, Military California, and Rural Space 208 9. Slavery's Stale Soil: Indentured Labor, Guestworkers, and the End of Empire 227 10. The Colonization of Antislavery and the Americanization of Empires: The Labor of Autonomy and the Labor of Subordination in Togo and the United States 267 11. Progressive Empire: Race and Tropicality in United Fruit's Central America 289 |
Series Title: | Culture, labor, history series |
Other Titles: | Making the empire work. |
Responsibility: | edited by Daniel E. Bender and Jana K. Lipman. |
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"Bender and Lipman have assembled a collection of short studies that conflate labor studies, imperial analyses, and diplomatic history to produce a challenging, insightful means of viewing such histories simultaneously. [] The innovative subjects and rigorous scholarship in this highly readable volume are accessible to general readers and scholars alike." * Choice * "This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the history of American imperialism, much of it from the bottom up." * American Historical Review * "Making the Empire Work is a game changer. This spectacular volume will transform the way U.S. historians conceive, write and teach about empire. Workers were everywhere in the U.S. empire: building and serving it, shaped by and suffering from it. The work collected here gives new meaning to William Appleman Williams trenchant call for us to consider 'empire as a way of life.'" -- Nan Enstad,University of Wisconsin, Madison Read more...

