1 Bloomsbury Street
London WC1B 3QE

11.30am to 6pm Monday | 10.30am - 6pm Tuesday to Saturday

Borderland on the Isthmus: Race, Culture, and the Struggle for the Canal Zone

Borderland on the Isthmus: Race, Culture, and the Struggle for the Canal ZoneBy: Michael E. Donoghue

£23.99

Product Code: 9780822356783

Category:

Brand:
Brand:Michael E. Donoghue
Weight 0.494 kg
Dimensions 15.24 × 2.311 × 22.86 cm
Book Type

PB
Format

Book
Publisher

In stock (can be backordered)

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 responded to U.S. occupation with proclamations, protests, and everyday forms of resistance and acquiescence. Although U.S. "Zonians" and military personnel stigmatized Panamanians as racial inferiors, they also sought them out for service labor, contraband, sexual pleasure, and marriage. The Canal Zone, he concludes, reproduced classic colonial hierarchies of race, national identity, and gender, establishing a model for other U.S. bases and imperial outposts around the globe.

Related products