Converging Empires - Pacific Histories of the West
Event
Join us for a conversation with author Andrea Geiger and ICW Director William Deverell as they discuss her new book, "Converging Empires: Citizens and Subjects in the North Pacific Borderlands, 1867-1945."
Lectures
Andrea Geiger is professor emerita of history at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, and the author of Subverting Exclusion: Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885-1928 (Yale University Press, 2011), awarded both the Theodore Saloutos Book Award (Immigration and Ethnic History Society) and the Association of Asian American Studies History Book Award. Her most recent book, Converging Empires: Citizens and Subjects in the North Pacific Borderlands, 1867-1945, was co-published in 2022 by the University of North Carolina Press (David J. Webber Series in the New Borderlands History) and, in Canada, by UBC Press.