Book Review| February 01 2015 Book Review: Fojas and Guevarra, eds., Transnational Crossroads: Remapping the Americas and the Pacific by Augusto Espiritu Transnational Crossroads: Remapping the Americas and the Pacific, ed. Camilla Fojas and Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr. (: University of Nebraska Press, 2012. x + 478 pp. $45 paper) Augusto Espiritu Augusto Espiritu University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2015) 84 (1): 127–128. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2015.84.1.127 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Augusto Espiritu; Book Review: Fojas and Guevarra, eds., Transnational Crossroads: Remapping the Americas and the Pacific by Augusto Espiritu. Pacific Historical Review 1 February 2015; 84 (1): 127–128. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2015.84.1.127 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2015 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Espiritu’s essay locates Julian Go’s Patterns of Empire in the context of the critical literature of US Philippine colonial studies and explains why it is a signal contribution to that literature. It provides an appreciative view of its argument against exceptionalism as well as its comparative critical analysis of the British and US empires. Finally, it raises several questions about empire, informal empire, and anti- imperialism as a way of furthering the dialogue the book seeks between political studies writ large and postcolonial studies.

Despite the turn toward diasporic, transnational, global, and comparative perspectives, this article argues that historians of Asian America have largely neglected and need to reflect upon inter-imperial relations—the relations of cooperation, competition, and conflict between empires, including subaltern attempts at creating spaces for maneuver and agency between them. With a focus on the development of the United States as an empire, this article identifies the key inter-imperial relations over time that have shaped the Asian American experience. An awareness of inter-imperial relations helps scholars to account for the political dynamics, the multiple sources of power, and the challenges to existing hegemonies that have structured Asian American lives. An approach sensitive to inter-imperial relations opens up the possibility of recognizing, and comparing, the simultaneous subaltern struggles that cut across nations and immigrant groups.

Research Article| May 01 2006 Introduction: The Fate of Nationalisms in the Age of Bandung Antoinette Burton; Antoinette Burton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Augusto Espiritu; Augusto Espiritu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Fanon Che Wilkins Fanon Che Wilkins Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (95): 145–148. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2006-95-145 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Antoinette Burton, Augusto Espiritu, Fanon Che Wilkins; Introduction: The Fate of Nationalisms in the Age of Bandung. Radical History Review 1 May 2006; 2006 (95): 145–148. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2006-95-145 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsRadical History Review Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc.2006 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Forum You do not currently have access to this content.