![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() centric–theory of transpacific empire: one that might help us think and organize across the various spaces, times, and scales of US transpacific empire and its unmaking. What is at stake, in other words, is a more relational – and by extension, less U.S. N a review essay published in a 2014 issue of American Quarterly, Simeon Man (2014, 451) calls on scholars of American empire-building in Asia to “collectively chart a new history of the ‘transpacific’ that decenters the United States and situates it in relation to other Pacific empires, most notably those of Japan and Britain.” The point of such a “comparative history of empire,” he continues, is not necessarily to “demonstrate the commensurability of imperial projects or simply to situate the United States in a wider world rather, it is to seek to comprehend the discursive logics and technologies of empire and to unravel its entanglements with liberal modernity” (Man 2014, 451). ![]()
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