Pacific Connections

Author : Kornel Chang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520271692

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“Pacific Connections is a shrewd, fascinating, and cogent examination of a Pacific Northwest borderland often taken for granted as a peaceful but inconsequential meeting point between two friendly nations. Chang shows instead how it has been a violent point of contention, shaped by empire and Anglo-American aspirations to hegemony, migration and ubiquitous racism, the creation of boundaries through state formation, and the transgression of those boundaries by the mechanisms of capital. Sharply written and deeply researched, this book brings the Pacific Northwest into both the history of the Pacific World and the literature on borderlands that has until now focused largely on the U.S. and Mexico. Pacific Connections is a brilliant achievement.”—Bruce Cumings, author of Dominion From Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power. "This wonderful book combines impressive archival research with a strong grounding in migration studies, political economy, cultural studies, and critical race studies. Chang examines weighty questions through compelling human dramas set in far-flung places across the Pacific Rim. This is transnational history at its best."—David Roediger, coauthor of The Production of Difference. "Kornel Chang grapples with big ideas and big questions. Tracing the global movements behind racial and national borders and unraveling the messy contradictions of empire at the dawn of the twentieth century, Pacific Connections explores a history that continues to haunt us, with particular resonance in our current moment."—Moon-Ho Jung, author of Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation. “Pacific Connections is a capacious study that recasts the U.S.-Canadian borderlands as a crucial site of migration, trade, and exclusion within the formation of Pacific empire. Chang shows how Chinese merchants, Japanese and European migrants, indigenous traders, Anglo labor activists, and both South Asian and white radicals played important roles in the negotiations of sovereignty.”—Lisa Lowe, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, San Diego.

Author : Alice Te Punga Somerville
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816677566

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Once Were Pacific by Alice Te Punga Somerville Pdf

Explores the relationship between indigeneity and migration among Maori and Pacific peoples

Author : Kornel Chang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520951549

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Pacific Connections by Kornel Chang Pdf

In the late nineteenth century the borderlands between the United States, the British Empire in Canada, and the Asia-Pacific Rim emerged as a crossroads of the Pacific world. In Pacific Connections, Kornel Chang tells the dramatic stories of the laborers, merchants, smugglers, and activists who crossed these borders into the twentieth century, and the American and British empire-builders who countered them by hardening racial and national lines. But even as settler societies attempted to control the processes of imperial integration, their project fractured under its contradictions. Migrant workers and radical activists pursued a transnational politics through the very networks that made empire possible. Charting the U.S.-Canadian borderlands from above and below, Chang reveals the messiness of imperial formation and the struggles it spawned from multiple locations and through different actors across the Pacific world. Pacific Connections is the winner of the Outstanding Book in History award from the Association for Asian American Studies and is a finalist for the John Hope Franklin Book Prize from the American Studies Association.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264596856

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OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews OECD Development Co‐operation Peer Reviews: New Zealand 2023 by OECD Pdf

This peer review provides recommendations for New Zealand to make the most of the closer integration of foreign and development policy in the Pacific, reinforce human resources, enable efficient and effective decision making, strengthen transparency, build public understanding of development, foster the linkages between climate-related investments and other priorities, and establish a plan for increasing ODA to deliver on New Zealand’s strategic goals.

Author : Thomas J. Osborne
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405194549

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Pacific Eldorado by Thomas J. Osborne Pdf

PACIFIC ELDORADO PACIFIC ELDORADO A HISTORY OF GREATER CALIFORNIA California‘s rich and complex history has long been shaped by its relationship with the vast ocean along its western shores. Pacific Eldorado: A History of Greater California presents the first comprehensive text to explore the entire sweep of California‘s past in relationship to the maritime world of the Pacific Basin. Noted historian Thomas J. Osborne dispels the commonly held notion of pre-Gold Rush California as a remote and isolated backwater. He traces the evolution of America‘s most populous state from the time of prehistoric Asian seafarers and sixteenth-century Spanish explorers through to its emergence in the modern world as a region whose unmatched resources and global influence have rendered it a veritable super state — a Greater California whose history has far exceeded its geographical boundaries. Interspersed throughout the text are “Pacific Profiles,” brief chronicles of notable figures who have made an impact on the state‘s history. At once scholarly and accessible, Pacific Eldorado offers a strikingly original interpretation of the origins and evolution of an extraordinary American state.

Author : United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
ISBN : UOM:35112101951335

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Awards ... First Division, National Railroad Adjustment Board by United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board Pdf

Author : Dr Lucy Budd,Professor Andrew R Goetz
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781472405302

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The Geographies of Air Transport by Dr Lucy Budd,Professor Andrew R Goetz Pdf

Making a detailed contribution to geographies of air transport and aeromobility, this book examines the practices and processes that produce particular patterns of air transport provision both regionally and globally. In so doing, it updates the seminal contributions of Eva Taylor (1945), Kenneth Sealy (1957), Brian Graham (1995) and others to the study of air transport geography. Leading scholars in the field offer a unique insight into the key developments that have occurred in the field and the implications that these developments have had for geography, geographers, and global patterns of past, present and future air transport. Although globalization and liberalization processes have greatly expanded the demand for air transport over the last two decades, the industry has experienced several major setbacks due to economic, security, and environmental concerns. Many of these impacts have been much more pronounced in some regions, such as North America and Europe while others, such as Asia-Pacific have not been as adversely affected. Accordingly, there is a clear need to examine these recent economic and geopolitical changes from a geographical perspective given the differentiated pattern of effects from global processes. Addressing this need, this volume opens with thematic chapters covering key topics such as the historical geographies, socio-cultural mobilities, environmental externalities, urban geographies, and sustainability of the global air transport industry, followed by regional analysis of the industry in Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Greater Middle East and Africa as well as North America and Europe.

Author : Junko Habu,Peter V. Lape,John W. Olsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 771 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781493965212

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Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology by Junko Habu,Peter V. Lape,John W. Olsen Pdf

The Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology focuses on the material culture and lifeways of the peoples of prehistoric and early historic East and Southeast Asia; their origins, behavior and identities as well as their biological, linguistic and cultural differences and commonalities. Emphasis is placed upon the interpretation of material culture to illuminate and explain social processes and relationships as well as behavior, technology, patterns and mechanisms of long-term change and chronology, in addition to the intellectual history of archaeology as a discipline in this diverse region. The Handbook augments archaeologically-focused chapters contributed by regional scholars by providing histories of research and intellectual traditions, and by maintaining a broadly comparative perspective. Archaeologically-derived data are emphasized with text-based documentary information, provided to complement interpretations of material culture. The Handbook is not restricted to art historical or purely descriptive perspectives; its geographical coverage includes the modern nation-states of China, Mongolia, Far Eastern Russia, North and South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and East Timor.

Author : Dennis O. Flynn,Arturo Giráldez,James Sobredo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351742481

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Studies in Pacific History by Dennis O. Flynn,Arturo Giráldez,James Sobredo Pdf

This title was first published in 2002.In recent years scholars have begun to conceptualize the history of the Pacific Ocean as a subset of world history. This question is taken up in the introductory chapter of this volume, which sets out four periods of modern Pacific history: a silver period, 1570s-1750; a period of early integration, 1750-1850; a gold period, 1850-c.1900; and a period of imperial strategies after the gold rushes. The next chapter looks at the fur trade of the Pacific coast of America, and its dependence on markets in China and Russia, followed by a set which focus on the era of the gold rushes, in California, Australia and New Zealand, when the pace of Pacific integration grew rapidly and new markets opened across the ocean. The last chapters examine aspects of the subsequent evolution of the Pacific Ocean into an ’American lake’, looking in particular at the interlocking of politics and migration. This volume carries forward study of the ’Pacific Centuries’, promoting the conceptualization of the Pacific Ocean as a coherent unit of analysis, and providing further important steps toward provision of the multi-century framework that is required for proper understanding of today’s ’Pacific Century’.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1696 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Trademarks
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005999573

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Index of Trademarks Issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Anonim Pdf

Author : Shane J. Barter,Michael Weiner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134987092

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The Pacific Basin by Shane J. Barter,Michael Weiner Pdf

The Pacific Basin: An Introduction is a new textbook which provides an interdisciplinary and comparative overview of the emerging Pacific world. Interest in the Pacific Basin has increased markedly in recent years, driven largely by the rise of China as a global rival to the United States and Asian development more generally. Growth in eastern Asia, as well as in the western Americas, has led the Pacific Basin to evolve as a dynamic economic zone. To make sense of this transformation, the book: Defines the Pacific Basin, locates it in academic research, and explains its importance. Addressees the historical origins and evolution of the Pacific Basin and its sub-regions. Introduces students to the historical and contemporary relationships, continuities and differences that characterize the region. Incorporates analyses of colonialism and imperialism, migration and settlement, economic development and trade, international relations, war and memory, environmental policy, urbanization, mental and public health, gender, film, and literature. Connects the diverse peoples of this vast area, explores their common challenges and the diverse responses to these challenges, and provides a window into the lived humanity of the Pacific Basin. The Pacific Basin: An Introduction is a key textbook for undergraduate courses on the Pacific Basin, the Pacific Rim, International Studies, Geography, World History, and Globalization.

Author : Jacqueline Leckie,Angela McCarthy,Angela Wanhalla
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317096672

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Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific by Jacqueline Leckie,Angela McCarthy,Angela Wanhalla Pdf

In contrast to much scholarship on cross-cultural encounters, which focuses primarily on contact between indigenous peoples and ’settlers’ or ’sojourners’, this book is concerned with migrant aspects of this phenomenon – whether migrant-migrant or migrant-host encounters – bringing together studies from a variety of perspectives on cross-cultural encounters, their past, and their resonances across the contemporary Asia-Pacific region. Organised thematically into sections focusing on ’imperial encounters’ of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ’identities’ in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and ’contemporary citizenship’ and the ways in which this is complicated by mobility and cross-cultural encounters, the volume presents studies of New Zealand, Singapore, Australia, Vanuatu, Mauritius and China to highlight key themes of mobility, intimacies, ethnicity and ’race’, heritage and diaspora, through rich evidence such as photographs, census data, the arts and interviews. Demonstrating the importance of multidisciplinary ways of looking at migrant cross-cultural encounters through blending historical and social science methodologies from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists, cultural geographers and historians with interests in migration, mobility and cross-cultural encounters.

Author : James Berry,Stanley McGreal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135805654

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Cities in the Pacific Rim by James Berry,Stanley McGreal Pdf

This book considers the interactive relationships between the operation of planning system and the role and performance of property development and real estate markets in 14 Pacific Rim Cities drawn from both Eastern and Western perspectives.

Author : R. G. Crocombe
Publisher : [email protected]
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Asia
ISBN : 9820203880

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Asia in the Pacific Islands by R. G. Crocombe Pdf

"A spectacular transition is under way in the Pacific Islands, as a result of which all our lives will be radically different. In the last fifty years or so, Asia has begun to play a bigger and bigger role in all aspects of Islands life - migration, trade and investment, aid and development, information and media, religion, culture and sport. It is replacing the West. The process is irreversible. With his trademark breadth and depth of knowledge and understanding of the region, based on over half a century of experience, study and deliberation, Ron Crocombe documents the early connections between Asia and the Pacific, details recent and continuing changes, and poses challenging theories about the future."--Publisher.

Author : Michael Heads
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107041028

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Biogeography of Australasia by Michael Heads Pdf

A fascinating analysis of the main patterns of distribution and evolution of the Australasian biota.