Steamships Across the Pacific
Book • 2025
Ruth Mandujano López examines late 19th- and early 20th-century transpacific networks by organizing the study around specific steamship voyages linking Mexican ports to Hong Kong and Yokohama.
The book foregrounds passengers’ and observers’ lived experiences to show how mobility shaped encounters, migration, and imperial formations.
Drawing on archives across Mexico, Hong Kong, San Francisco, London and Madrid, it traces evolving routes, technologies, and diplomatic tensions between 1867 and the First World War. Mandujano López highlights how steam replaced the old Manila galleon circuits and how migrations from China and Japan interacted with Mexican state projects and local economies.
The study argues for conceiving history as movement and networks rather than fixed national narratives, and points toward understudied archives in Manila, Macau, and Yokohama.
The book foregrounds passengers’ and observers’ lived experiences to show how mobility shaped encounters, migration, and imperial formations.
Drawing on archives across Mexico, Hong Kong, San Francisco, London and Madrid, it traces evolving routes, technologies, and diplomatic tensions between 1867 and the First World War. Mandujano López highlights how steam replaced the old Manila galleon circuits and how migrations from China and Japan interacted with Mexican state projects and local economies.
The study argues for conceiving history as movement and networks rather than fixed national narratives, and points toward understudied archives in Manila, Macau, and Yokohama.
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Ruth Mandujano López, "Steamships Across the Pacific: Maritime Journeys between Mexico, China, and Japan, 1867–1914" (U Hong Kong Press, 2025)
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Ruth Mandujano López, "Steamships Across the Pacific: Maritime Journeys between Mexico, China, and Japan, 1867–1914" (U Hong Kong Press, 2025)
