Converging empires : citizens and subjects in the north Pacific borderlands, 1867-1945
2022
Book
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Item Details
ISBN: 9780774867993
Description: xvii, 350 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Notes:
- Canadiana.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
- The shifting borderlands of the north Pacific coast
- Immigrant and Indigene
- Encounters with law and lawless encounters
- Borders at sea
- The Pacific borderlands in wartime.
Control Number: 3134916
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, [2022]Subjects:
- Alaska -- History -- 1867-1959.
- Alaska Natives -- Legal status, laws, etc.
- Borderlands -- Northwest, Pacific -- History.
- Borderlands -- Social aspects -- Northwest, Pacific -- History.
- British Columbia -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
- British Columbia -- History.
- Canadian-American Border Region -- History -- 19th century.
- Canadian-American Border Region -- History -- 20th century.
- Canadian-American Border Region -- Race relations.
- Foreign workers, Japanese -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canadian-American Border Region.
- Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada.
- Indigenous peoples -- Northwest, Pacific -- History.
- Japan -- Colonies -- Boundaries.
- Japanese -- Northwest, Pacific -- History.
- Northwest, Pacific -- Ethnic relations -- History.
- Northwest, Pacific -- Race relations -- History.
- United States -- Foreign relations.