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Author | : Mark Borthwick |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2018-04-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0429974523 |
This book examines the role of the international financial system in the development of Pacific Asia and, conversely, the region's growing influence on North America and the world economy. It looks at the distant future, being devoted primarily to understanding the emergence of modern Pacific Asia.
Author | : Frank Gibney |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
000545853 - 99/615 A Robert Stewart book.
Author | : Dennis O. Flynn |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1998-12-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1134669038 |
This book provides an overview of five centuries of Pacific and Pacific Rim economic and trade history, making it a valuable contribution to understanding of the increasing global importance of this region.
Author | : Gregory T. Cushman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2013-03-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107004136 |
This book traces the history of bird guano, demonstrating how this unique commodity helped unite the Pacific Basin with the industrialized world.
Author | : Mark Berger |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134719140 |
There is great interest in the Pacific Century and what its implications for the future will be. The rapid economic growth of East Asia was already setting the region apart from the rest of the world by the 1970s. By the 1980s the trend was seen to have spread southward to Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, while China's provinces had also become integral to the regional economic boom. In this exciting new study many of the ideas and expectations associated with the Pacific Century are placed under critical scrutiny. The book includes studies of particular countries such as China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia. There is analysis of economic and political trends in the region, the reasons behind its rise and its importance on a global scale. The rise of East Asia represents an historic turning point with immense significance world-wide. This book will be of interest to anyone concerned about the new approaches to and the debate about the rise of east Asia and the coming of the Pacific Century.
Author | : Colin McEvedy |
Publisher | : Penguin (Non-Classics) |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Organized in the same innovative manner as Colin McEvedy's other Penguin historical atlases, but presented in a new, larger, and more accessible format, The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Pacific features forty-nine double-page spreads, with text facing the maps, that provide overviews of crucial moments in the history of the Pacific and the lands around it, from the formation of the ocean some twenty-eight million years ago to the end of the twentieth century. The spreads show the movements of peoples along the Pacific Rim, the occupation of oceanic islands, the development of nations, and the rise and fall of empires within and around the huge Pacific basin. The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Pacific is an essential acquisition for schools, libraries, and students of Asian and American history.
Author | : Frank Viviano |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1994-04-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780201626995 |
Viviano's tales about this expansive era are of mythic proportions. He brilliantly recreates the lives of people in Pacific countries who have been touched by the rapid march into the technological age.
Author | : Richard McGregor |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0399562672 |
China, red or green -- Countering Japan -- Five ragged islands -- The golden years -- Japan says no -- Asian values -- Apologies and their discontents -- Yasukuni respects -- History's cauldron -- The Ampo mafia -- The rise and retreat of great powers -- China lays down the law -- Nationalization -- Creation myths -- Freezing point -- Afterword
Author | : William J. McCord |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781412836463 |
"The author [displays] a commanding knowledge of a broad range of literature in the social sciences and a sound critique of existing theories of development... makes the case for a genuinely Asian model of development that must be understood on its own terms."--Foreign Affairs Analysts have been confounded in attempts to explain Asian development, without resources and colonies, without internal violence, and broadly distributing wealth as they have grown. Existing theories of development offer little guidance. Even explanations that look to the special circumstances of Asian countries have their weaknesses. McCord considers some of these ideas, so as to draw from them common themes. He identifies a common group of socioeconomic values and policies shared by most of these nations, and these, he shows, tell us much.
Author | : Alastair Couper |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2008-12-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0824864239 |
Written by a senior scholar and master mariner, Sailors and Traders is the first comprehensive account of the maritime peoples of the Pacific. It focuses on the sailors who led the exploration and settlement of the islands and New Zealand and their seagoing descendants, providing along the way new material and unique observations on traditional and commercial seagoing against the background of major periods in Pacific history. The book begins by detailing the traditions of sailors, a group whose way of life sets them apart. Like all others who live and work at sea, Pacific mariners face the challenges of an often harsh environment, endure separation from their families for months at a time, revere their vessels, and share a singular attitude to risk and death. The period of prehistoric seafaring is discussed using archaeological data, interpretations from interisland exchanges, experimental voyaging, and recent DNA analysis. Sections on the arrival of foreign exploring ships centuries later concentrate on relations between visiting sailors and maritime communities. The more intrusive influx of commercial trading and whaling ships brought new technology, weapons, and differences in the ethics of trade. The successes and failures of Polynesian chiefs who entered trading with European-type ships are recounted as neglected aspects of Pacific history. As foreign-owned commercial ships expanded in the region so did colonialism, which was accompanied by an increase in the number of sailors from metropolitan countries and a decrease in the employment of Pacific islanders on foreign ships. Eventually small-scale island entrepreneurs expanded interisland shipping, and in 1978 the regional Pacific Forum Line was created by newly independent states. This was welcomed as a symbolic return to indigenous Pacific ocean linkages. The book’s final sections detail the life of the modern Pacific seafarer. Most Pacific sailors in the global maritime labor market return home after many months at sea, bringing money, goods, a wider perspective of the world, and sometimes new diseases. Each of these impacts is analyzed, particularly in the case of Kiribati, a major supplier of labor to foreign ships.