UID:
almafu_9959677607402883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 349 pages) :
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illustrations.
ISBN:
0-8223-7667-9
,
9780822376675
Series Statement:
American encounters/global interactions
Content:
The construction, maintenance, and defense of the Panama Canal brought Panamanians, U.S. soldiers and civilians, West Indians, Asians, and Latin Americans into close, even intimate, contact. In this lively and provocative social history, Michael E. Donoghue positions the Panama Canal Zone as an imperial borderland where U.S. power, culture, and ideology were projected and contested. Highlighting race as both an overt and underlying force that shaped life in and beyond the Zone, Donoghue details how local traditions and colonial policies interacted and frequently clashed. Panamanians respo
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
,
Borderland on the Isthmus: the changing boundaries and frontiers of the Panama Canal Zone -- Race and identity in the Zone-Panama borderland: Zonians Uber Alles -- Race and identity in the zone-Panama borderland: West Indians contra todos -- Desire, sexuality, and gender in the Zone-Panama borderland -- The U.S. Military: armed guardians of the borderland -- "Injuring the power system": crime and resistance in the borderland -- The Zone-Panama borderland and the complexity of U.S. Empire.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-5678-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-5666-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822356660
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822356783
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.1515/9780822376675
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822376675
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822376675
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822376675?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822376675
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822376675