Steamships across the Pacific

<span>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 Díiacute;az'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. </span><br><br><span>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.</span>