... liners revealed the inherent tension within U.S. society’s dealings with the Pacific Ocean and a global empire. In the steamships’ physical space and cultural images, the elitist desires for transpacific commerce collided with popular demands against transpacific migration. The formal acquisition...

... characterized the American presence south of the border as an “empire,” this term occludes historical contingencies and overlooks the variegated power of borderland enterprises. CRSI records challenge such a generalization, and the company’s history presents a case study in fragility. It shows how peasants...

... empire, this article explores continuities through an examination of the interaction between imperial culture and military violence. Some U.S. soldiers in the Philippines drew directly on their experiences in wars with Native people, while others narrated their time in the Philippines as an “Indian war...

... with competing settler colonialisms. © 2021 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association 2021 inter-imperial nineteenth century Hawai‘i transpacific empire settler colonialism Yosaku Imada CHRISTEN T. SASAKI Emerging Nations, Emerging Empires Inter-Imperial Intimacies...

... the geopolitics of empire, U.S. and East Asian Protestants nevertheless strove to bring together diverse theologies and experiences into a loosely defined, transnational Protestant community. GAVIN JAMES CAMPBELL To Make the World One in Christ Jesus Transpacific Protestantism in the Age of Empire ABSTRACT...

... empires, including subaltern attempts at creating spaces for maneuver and agency between them. With a focus on the development of the United States as an empire, this article identifies the key inter-imperial relations over time that have shaped the Asian American experience. An awareness of inter...