| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 231 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction -- A South American Pacific -- Gender and sexuality in the Pacific -- Transnational cholera -- Comparisons and connections in Pacific anarchism -- Pacific policing -- Epilogue : of parallels |
| Summary |
"The War of the Pacific (1879-1883) looms large in the history of Peru and Chile. Upending the prevailing historiographical focus on the history of conflict, Beyond Patriotic Phobias explores points of connection shared between Peruvians and Chileans despite war. Through careful archival work, historian Joshua Savala highlights the overlooked cooperative relationships of workers across borders, including maritime port workers, doctors, and the police. These groups, in both countries, were intimately tied together through different forms of labor: they worked the ships and ports, studied and treated disease transmission in the face of a cholera outbreak, and conducted surveillance over port and maritime activities because of perceived threats like transnational crime and labor organizing. By following the movement of people, diseases, and ideas, Savala reconstructs the circulation that created a South American Pacific world. The resulting story is one in which communities, classes, and states formed transnationally through varied, if uneven, forms of cooperation"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 08, 2022) |
| Subject |
Borderlands -- Social aspects -- Peru
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Borderlands -- Social aspects -- Chile
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War of the Pacific, 1879-1884.
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HISTORY / Latin America / South America.
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HISTORY / General.
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Chile
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Peru
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021061567 |
| ISBN |
9780520385917 |
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0520385918 |
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