The Link That Divides

Race, Empire, and the Quest for the Nicaragua Canal in the Nineteenth Century

Rajeshwari Dutt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2026
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-55327-8 (ISBN)

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Uncovering the intertwined histories of the Nicaragua Canal and the Mosquito Coast, this book will appeal to readers interested in empire, race, and the global nineteenth century. It offers fresh insights for scholars of imperial history, transatlantic history, technology, and race.

This important book illuminates the deeply intertwined histories of the Nicaragua Canal and the Afro-Indigenous Mosquito Coast, uncovering a compelling truth, long overshadowed by the triumphalist narrative of the Panama Canal. Focusing on British and US efforts to control the canal route through Nicaragua, Rajeshwari Dutt shows how imperial ambition, racial ideology, and local power struggles shaped one of Latin America's most contested infrastructure projects. She traces the role of racial language in imperial, colonial, and national agendas; the shifting dynamics of Anglo-American imperialism on the Mosquito Coast; and the violence embedded in the very pursuit of interoceanic connection. Methodologically, the book advances a practice of reading failure as a lens through which to understand the fragility of imperial projects and the contradictions that undermine their global ambitions. At its heart, The Link That Divides reveals a central paradox: that dreams of connection were built on – and undone by – the reality of division and exclusion.

Rajeshwari Dutt is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi. She is the author of Maya Caciques in Early National Yucatán (2017) and Empire on Edge: The British Struggle for Order in Belize during Yucatán's Caste War, 1847–1901 (2020).

Part I: 1. Glimmers of a canal; 2. The British conquest of San Juan del Norte; 3. The consolidation of Greytown: Part II: 4. United States enters the canal contest; 5. The rise and fall of Greytown; 6. Filibustering on the San Juan; Part III: 7. The road to arbitration; 8. Canal dreams and the fate of the Mosquito Reserve; Conclusion: the turn towards Panama.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.4.2026
Reihe/Serie	Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-009-55327-5 / 1009553275
ISBN-13	978-1-009-55327-8 / 9781009553278
Zustand	Neuware