Steamships across the Pacific: maritime journeys between Mexico, China and Japan, 1867-1914 / Ruth Mandujano López.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mandujano López, Ruth, author.

Series:

Crossing seas (Hong Kong University Press)

Crossing Seas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ocean travel--History--19th century.

Ocean travel.

Ocean travel--History--20th century.

Steamboats--Pacific Area--History--19th century.

Steamboats.

Steamboats--Pacific Area--History--20th century.

Mexico--Foriegn relations.

Mexico.

China--Foreign relations--1644-1912.

China.

Japan--Foreign relations--1868-1912.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Path to Open

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2025.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"During the nineteenth century, the transpacific world underwent profound transformation, due to the transition from sail to steam navigation that was accompanied by a concomitant reconfiguration of power. This book explores the ways in which diverse Mexican, British, Chinese, and Japanese interests participated, particularly during Porfirio Díaz’s presidency at the peak of Mexico’s participation in the steam network: from its 1860s outset through a time of many revolutionary changes ending with the World War, the Mexican Revolution, the opening of the Panama Canal, and the introduction of a new maritime technology based on vessels run by oil. These transoceanic exchanges, generated within these new geographies of power, contributed not only to the formation of a transpacific region but also to refashioning the Mexican national imaginary. With transnationalism, global and migration studies as its main framework, this study draws upon a dazzling array of primary sources to center Mexico’s transpacific relations and the influence they wielded over the region at the height of the steamship period."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. San Pedro, 1565 / Colorado, 1867: from sail to steam

2. Vasco de Gama, 1874: a space odyssey

3. Mount Lebanon, 1884: navigating in Britain’s diplomatic waters

4. Gaelic, 1897: the Japanese colonization project in Mexico

5. Suisang, 1908: double vision—Chinese migrants and the body of the nation

6. Ancon, 1914: revolutions and the end of the Porfirian transpacific system

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed October 9, 2025)

ISBN:

9789888876303

9888876309

OCLC:

1543239140

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