Search Results - "War"

Race war white supremacy and the Japanese attack on the British Empire / by Horne, Gerald

Subjects: “…World War, 1939-1945 Pacific Area.…”
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World War II in Asia and the Pacific and the war's aftermath, with general themes a handbook of literature and research /

Subjects: “…World War, 1939-1945 Asia.…”
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The roots of war in the 21st century geography, hegemony, and politics in Asia-Pacific / by Doyle, Randall Jordan

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American Studies as Transnational Practice : Turning toward the Transpacific /

Table of Contents: “…Industries of memory: the Viêt Nam War in art /…”
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Orienting Canada race, empire, and the transpacific / by Price, John

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Race, empire, and war -- pt. 2. Pax Americana : race, anti-communism, and Asia.…”
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The imperialist imaginary : visions of Asia and the Pacific in American culture / by Eperjesi, John R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the American Pacific : an errand into Oceania -- The "superlative and poetry of commerce" : scattered origins of an American Pacific frontier -- An American Pacific Jeremiad : Frank Norris's The octopus and U.S. imperialism -- The American Asiatic association and the imperialist imaginary of the American Pacific -- Becoming Hawaiian : Jack London, cultural tourism, and the myth of Hawaiian exceptionalism -- Maxine Hong Kingston's China men : frontiers of the Chinese American Pacific -- Memories of a forgotten war : a Filipino/American ghost story -- Conclusion : outside in the American Pacific.…”
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Pacific Strife : The Great Powers and their Political and Economic Rivalries in Asia and the Western Pacific, 1870-1914 / by Dijk, C. van (Cornelis), 1946-

Table of Contents: “…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.…”
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