The War of the Pacific (1879-1883) looms large in the history of Peru and Chile. Upending the prevailing historiographical focus on the history of conflict, Beyond Patriotic Phobias explores points of connection shared between Peruvians and Chileans despite war. Through careful archival work, historian Joshua Savala highlights the overlooked cooperative relationships of workers across borders, including maritime port workers, doctors, and the police. These groups, in both countries, were intimately tied together through different forms of labor: they worked the ships and ports, studied and treated disease transmission in the face of a cholera outbreak, and conducted surveillance over port and maritime activities because of perceived threats like transnational crime and labor organizing. By following the movement of people, diseases, and ideas, Savala reconstructs the circulation that created a South American Pacific world. The resulting story is one in which communities, classes, and states formed transnationally through varied, if uneven, forms of cooperation.

About the Author
Joshua Savala is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Rollins College.

Reviews
"Josh Savala's succinct and snappy monograph deftly counters the dominant tendency among both popular commentators and scholars to start investigations of Chilean-Peruvian historical relations from the premise of conflict. . . . Beyond Patriotic Phobias shows us how even within a context of military and territorial conflict we find many stories of transnational collaboration, friendship and commonality." * Journal of Latin American Studies *
"The book is exemplary in terms of how the new turn to transitional history can be transposed to eras that have been defined more hermetically in the past. It fleshes out the Chilean-Peruvian relationship, thereby modifying the traditional paradigm." * International Affairs *
"Beyond Patriotic Phobias is a welcome addition to the scholarship dealing with Peruvian-Chilean international relations." * Hispanic American Historical Review *
"This is the rare book that is deeply researched but also compact and accessible. It is written in dialogue with global and local literatures, from Peruvian and Chilean national and regional historiographies to scholarship on anarchism, oceans, and state-formation, but it doesn't indulge in overly long theorizations." * The Americas *
"Beyond Patriotic Phobias is an original study and fascinating read that scholars and students of many historical subdisciplines surely will find valuable." * International Journal of Maritime History *



Book Information
ISBN 9780520385894
Author Joshua Savala
Format Paperback
Page Count 248
Imprint University of California Press
Publisher University of California Press
Weight(grams) 363g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm