Melancholy order : Asian migration and the globalization of borders / Adam M. McKeown.
Melancholy order : Asian migration and the globalization of borders / Adam M. McKeown.
Melancholy order : Asian migration and the globalization of borders / Adam M. McKeown.
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New York ; [Chichester] : Columbia University Press, c2008.
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N325.25/3
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English
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xii, 450 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction. The Globalization of Identities -- Pt. I. Borders in Transformation -- 1. Consolidating Identities, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries -- 2. Global Migration, 1840-1940 -- 3. Creating the Free Migrant -- 4. Nationalization of Migration Control -- Pt. II. Imagining Borders -- 5. Experime...
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New York ; [Chichester] : Columbia University Press, c2008.
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New York (State)
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c2008.
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"McKeown's detailed history traces how, rather than being a legacy of "traditional" forms of sovereignty,practices of border control historically rose from attempts to control Asian migration around the Pacific in the 1880s. New policies to control mobility had to be justified in the context of contemporary liberal ideas of freedom and mobility, ge...
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Melancholy order : Asian migration and the globalization of borders / Adam M. McKeown.
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Columbia studies in international and global history.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2008.
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N325.25/3
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74VM4yZkA8Pd
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023151171X (ebook)
9780231140768 (hbk.)
0231140762 (hbk.)
9780231511711 (ebook)
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325.25
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991001561159702626
