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.
| ISBN: | 9781009553322 |
| Publication date: | 30th April 2026 |
| Author: | Rajeshwari Dutt |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 264 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations |
| Genres: |
History of the Americas Maritime history Diplomacy Geopolitics History of engineering and technology |
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.
The Link That Divides features in the following genres: History of the Americas, Maritime history, Diplomacy, Geopolitics, History of engineering and technology
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The Link That Divides was written by Rajeshwari Dutt and published by Cambridge University Press
The Link That Divides has 264 pages
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