Pacific Strife : The Great Powers and their Political and Economic Rivalries in Asia and the Western Pacific, 1870-1914 /

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, colonial powers clashed over much of Central and East Asia: Great Britain and Germany fought over New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, Fiji, and Samoa; France and Great Britain competed over control of continental Southwest Asia; and the United States annexed the...

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Үндсэн зохиолч: Dijk, C. van (Cornelis), 1946- (Зохиогч)
Формат: Цахим Цахим ном
Хэл сонгох:англи
Хэвлэсэн: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]
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Агуулга:
  • Steam and Istmus canals
  • Planters, traders and labour in the South Pacific
  • Fiji: the start of Anglo-German rivalry in the Pacific
  • The Somoa conflict
  • Germany enters the colonial race
  • The New Guinea protectorates
  • Great Britain, Russia and the Central Asian question
  • Samoa remains a source of international tension
  • The emerging economic world powers
  • Great Britain, France and Southeast Asia
  • The French-expansion westwards into Southeast Asia
  • Russia, Japan and the Chinese empire
  • Thailand and beyond
  • The scramble for China: the Bay of Jiaozhou and Port Arthur
  • The British reaction: Wei-Hai-Wei
  • The scramble for China continues: Guangzhouwan and Tibet
  • The failed annexation of Hawaii
  • The United States becomes a colonial empire
  • The partition of Samoa
  • The Russo-Japanese war
  • Great Britain's search for secure colonial frontiers
  • The United States, Japan and the Pacific Ocean
  • Epilogue.