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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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2015]
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Mục lục:
- 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.