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Transoceanic America

Author : Michelle Burnham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198840896
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Transoceanic America written by Michelle Burnham and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transoceanic America offers a new approach to American literature by emphasizing the material and conceptual interconnectedness of the Atlantic and Pacific worlds. These oceans were tied together economically, textually, and politically, through such genres as maritime travel writing, mathematical and navigational schoolbooks, and the relatively new genre of the novel. Especially during the age of revolutions in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, long-distance transoceanic travel required calculating and managing risk in the interest of profit. The result was the emergence of a newly suspenseful form of narrative that came to characterize capitalist investment, political revolution, and novelistic plot. The calculus of risk that drove this expectationist narrative also concealed violence against vulnerable bodies on ships and shorelines around the world. A transoceanic American literary and cultural history requires new non-linear narratives to tell the story of this global context and to recognize its often forgotten textual archive.

Transoceanic America

Author : Michelle Burnham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019257759X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Transoceanic America written by Michelle Burnham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transoceanic America offers a new approach to American literature by emphasizing the material and conceptual interconnectedness of the Atlantic and Pacific worlds. These oceans were tied together economically, textually, and politically, through such genres as maritime travel writing, mathematical and navigational schoolbooks, and the relatively new genre of the novel. Especially during the age of revolutions in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, long-distance transoceanic travel required calculating and managing risk in the interest of profit. The result was the emergence of a newly suspenseful form of narrative that came to characterize capitalist investment, political revolution, and novelistic plot. The calculus of risk that drove this expectationist narrative also concealed violence against vulnerable bodies on ships and shorelines around the world. A transoceanic American literary and cultural history requires new non-linear narratives to tell the story of this global context and to recognize its often forgotten textual archive.

Pacific America

Author : Lon Kurashige
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824855795
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Pacific America written by Lon Kurashige and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent times, the Asia-Pacific region has far surpassed Europe in terms of reciprocal trade with the United States, and since the 1980s immigrants from Asia entering the United States have exceeded their counterparts from Europe, reversing a longstanding historical trend and making Asian Americans the country’s fastest growing racial group. What does transpacific history look like if the arc of the story is extended to the present? The essays in this volume offer answers to this question challenging current assumptions about transpacific relations. Many of these assumptions are expressed through fear: that the ascendance of China threatens a U.S.-led world system and undermines domestic economies; that immigrants subvert national unity; and that globalization, for all its transcending of international, cultural, and racial differences, generates its own forms of prejudice and social divisions that reproduce global and national inequalities. The contributors make clear that these fears associated with, and induced by, pacific integration are not new. Rather, they are the most recent manifestation of international, racial, and cultural conflicts that have driven transpacific relations in its premodern and especially modern iterations. Pacific America differs from other books that are beginning to flesh out the transnational history of the Pacific Ocean in that it is more self-consciously a people’s history. While diplomatic and economic relations are addressed, the chapters are particularly concerned with histories from the “bottom up,” including attention to social relations and processes, individual and group agency, racial and cultural perception, and collective memory. These perspectives are embodied in the four sections focusing on China and the early modern world, circuits of migration and trade, racism and imperialism, and the significance of Pacific islands. The last section on Pacific Islanders avoids a common failing in popular perception that focuses on both sides of the Pacific Ocean while overlooking the many islands in between. The chapters in this section take on one of the key challenges for transpacific history in connecting the migration and imperial histories of the United States, Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, and other nations, with the history of Oceania.

Pacific America

Author : Lon Kurashige
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780824875596
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Pacific America written by Lon Kurashige and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent times, the Asia-Pacific region has far surpassed Europe in terms of reciprocal trade with the United States, and since the 1980s immigrants from Asia entering the United States have exceeded their counterparts from Europe, reversing a longstanding historical trend and making Asian Americans the country's fastest growing racial group. What does transpacific history look like if the arc of the story is extended to the present? The essays in this volume offer answers to this question challenging current assumptions about transpacific relations.

Learning to Unlearn

Author : Madina Vladimirovna Tlostanova
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814211885
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Learning to Unlearn written by Madina Vladimirovna Tlostanova and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complex, multisided rethinking of the epistemic matrix of Western modernity and coloniality from the position of border epistemology.

Transoceanic Lights

Author : S. Li
Publisher : Harvard Square Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781941861301
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Transoceanic Lights written by S. Li and published by Harvard Square Editions. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRANSOCEANIC LIGHTS tells of three families who immigrate to the US from post-Mao China. The unnamed narrator's overbearing mother is plagued with regret as financial burdens and lack of trust begin to rend apart her marriage. Her only solace lies in the distant promise of better lives for her children. Yet her son spends his days longing for the comfort and familiarity of his homeland, while his two cousins, one precocious and the other rambunctious, seem to assimilate effortlessly. Transoceanic Lights explores familial love and discord, the strains of displacement, and the elusive nature of the American Dream."Here they come, fresh off the flight from China: The father, Ba, the mother, Ma, and their only child, unnamed; we'll call him Son. Son is 5, the same age the Chinese-American author was on his arrival in the U.S.; the novel has a strong autobiographical flavor."--Kirkus

Liner Predominance in Transoceanic Shipping

Author : Eugene Tyler Chamberlain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Liner Predominance in Transoceanic Shipping written by Eugene Tyler Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bipoint in the Settlement of North America

Author : Wm Jack Hranicky
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1627342885
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book The Bipoint in the Settlement of North America written by Wm Jack Hranicky and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 378 page archaeological publication covers the development, definition, classification, and world-wide deployment of the lithic bipoint and includes numerous photographs, drawings, and maps. The bipoint is a legacy implement from the Old World that is found through time/space all over America. It was brought into the U.S. on both coasts; the Pacific Coast introduction was around 17,000 years ago and the Atlantic Coast was 23,000 years ago. The basic bipoint is defined and its manufacturing processes are presented along with bipoint properties, shape/form, resharpening, and cultural associations. This publication illustrates numerous bipoints from the Atlantic and Pacific states (and within the U.S.) and presents some of their inferred chronologies which are the oldest in the New World. Several morphologies between American and Iberian bipoints are compared, namely the famous Virginia Cinmar bipoint. It concludes that a Solutrean occupation did occur on the U.S. Atlantic coastal plain. The bipoint is the most misclassified artifact in American archaeology. The book is indexed and has extensive references.

Ancient Ocean Crossings

Author : Stephen C. Jett
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817319395
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Ocean Crossings written by Stephen C. Jett and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paints a compelling picture of impressive pre-Columbian cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary to many prevailing notions, were not isolated from one another In Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas, Stephen Jett encourages readers to reevaluate the common belief that there was no significant interchange between the chiefdoms and civilizations of Eurasia and Africa and peoples who occupied the alleged terra incognita beyond the great oceans. More than a hundred centuries separate the time that Ice Age hunters are conventionally thought to have crossed a land bridge from Asia into North America and the arrival of Columbus in the Bahamas in 1492. Traditional belief has long held that earth’s two hemispheres were essentially cut off from one another as a result of the post-Pleistocene meltwater-fed rising oceans that covered that bridge. The oceans, along with arctic climates and daunting terrestrial distances, formed impermeable barriers to interhemispheric communication. This viewpoint implies that the cultures of the Old World and those of the Americas developed independently. Drawing on abundant and concrete evidence to support his theory for significant pre-Columbian contacts, Jett suggests that many ancient peoples had both the seafaring capabilities and the motives to cross the oceans and, in fact, did so repeatedly and with great impact. His deep and broad work synthesizes information and ideas from archaeology, geography, linguistics, climatology, oceanography, ethnobotany, genetics, medicine, and the history of navigation and seafaring, making an innovative and persuasive multidisciplinary case for a new understanding of human societies and their diffuse but interconnected development.

Transoceanic Crossings to Ancient America

Author : Ross Taylor Christensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Transoceanic Crossings to Ancient America written by Ross Taylor Christensen and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transporting Visions

Author : Jennifer L. Roberts
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520251849
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Transporting Visions written by Jennifer L. Roberts and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-01-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation."

Global Latin(o) Americanos

Author : Mark Overmyer-Velázquez
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199389698
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Global Latin(o) Americanos written by Mark Overmyer-Velázquez and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Latin(o) Americanos addresses and reframes a central issue of our time: the challenge of incorporating immigrants into Western societies and economies, which too often frame immigrants as "the problem." How Latino immigrants respond and exercise agency under familiar and unfamiliar global conditions is of critical importance on several fronts, including the health of democratic societies and the diverse expressions of citizenship across the Latino diaspora. Building on the scholarship of new migratory destinations of people from Latin America and the Caribbean, Global Latin(o) Americanos moves toward studies of diasporic citizenship; this shift not only de-centers U.S.-dominant interpretations, but also places less emphasis on the nation-state and its economic systems as units of analysis. The book includes work by leading scholars of migration in Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the United States. It examines a wide range of intraregional and transoceanic migratory flows and addresses critical themes from several disciplinary perspectives.

American Aviation

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Aviation written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for include Annual air transport progress issue.

Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy

Author : Juan-José Martín-González
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030770567
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy written by Juan-José Martín-González and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy studies Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011) and Flood of Fire (2015) in relation to maritime criticism. Juan-José Martín-González draws upon the intersections between maritime criticism and postcolonial thought to provide, via an analysis of the Ibis trilogy, alternative insights into nationalism(s), cosmopolitanism and globalization. He shows that the Victorian age in its transoceanic dimension can be read as an era of proto-globalization that facilitates a materialist critique of the inequities of contemporary global neo-liberalism. The book argues that in order to maintain its critical sharpness, postcolonialism must re-direct its focus towards today’s most obvious legacy of nineteenth-century imperialism: capitalist globalization. Tracing the migrating characters who engage in transoceanic crossings through Victorian sea lanes in the Ibis trilogy, Martín-González explores how these dispossessed collectives made sense of their identities in the Victorian waterworlds and illustrates the political possibilities provided by the sea crossing and its fluid boundaries.

First Great Triumph

Author : Warren Zimmermann
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374528934
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book First Great Triumph written by Warren Zimmermann and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-01-15 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author discusses how the lives of Theodore Roosevelt, Alfed T. Mahan, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Hay, and Elihu Root intersected with the growth of the American imperialism that eventually made the United States a world power.

Oriental Shadows

Author : Jim Egan
Publisher : Transoceanic
ISBN 13 : 9780814211618
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Oriental Shadows written by Jim Egan and published by Transoceanic. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the use of several iconic early American authors (Anne Bradstreet, James Kirkpatrick, Benjamin Franklin, and Edgar Allan Poe), Jim Egan's Oriental Shadows: The Presence of the East in Early American Literature explores the presence of "the East" in American writing. The specter of the East haunted the literature of colonial British America and the new United States, from the earliest promotional pamphlets to the most aesthetically sophisticated works of art of the American Renaissance. Figures of Persia, China, Arabia, and other Oriental people, places, and things played crucial roles in many British American literary works, serving as key images in early American writers' efforts to demonstrate that early American culture could match--and perhaps even surpass--European standards of refinement. These writers offered the East as a solution to America's perceived inferior civilized status by suggesting that America become more civilized not by becoming more European but instead by adopting aesthetic styles and standards long associated with an East cast as superior aesthetically to both America and Europe. In bringing to light this largely overlooked archive of images within the American literary canon, Oriental Shadows suggests that the East played a key role in the emergence of a distinctively American literary tradition and, further, that early American identity was born as much from figures of the East as it was from the colonists' encounters with the frontier.

Time and Antiquity in American Empire

Author : Mark Storey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019264498X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Time and Antiquity in American Empire written by Mark Storey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about two empires—America and Rome—and the forms of time we create when we think about them together. Ranging from the eighteenth century to the present day, through novels, journalism, film, and photography, Time and Antiquity in American Empire reconfigures our understanding of how cultural and political life has generated an analogy between Roman antiquity and the imperial US state—both to justify and perpetuate it, and to resist and critique it. The book takes in a wide scope, from theories of historical time and imperial culture, through the twin political pillars of American empire—republicanism and slavery—to the popular genres that have reimagined America's and Rome's sometimes strange orbit: Christian fiction, travel writing, and science fiction. Through this conjunction of literary history, classical reception studies, and the philosophy of history, however, Time and Antiquity in American Empire builds a more fundamental inquiry: about how we imagine both our politics and ourselves within historical time. It outlines a new relationship between text and context, and between history and culture; one built on the oscillating, dialectical logic of the analogy, and on a spatialising of historical temporality through the metaphors of constellations and networks. Offering a fresh reckoning with the historicist protocols of literary study, this book suggests that recognizing the shape of history we step into when we analogize with the past is also a way of thinking about how we have read—and how we might yet read.