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The Pacific Basin

Author : Shane J. Barter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1134987021
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book The Pacific Basin written by Shane J. Barter and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Environmental Change in the Pacific Basin

Author : Patrick D. Nunn
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Change in the Pacific Basin written by Patrick D. Nunn and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1999-06-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talk of the human-enhanced greenhouse effect and the ways in which it may affect our lives has made many people more aware of environmental change. We have come to realize that the environment is and has always bean in a state of continuous change, and that we and other organisms have had to adjust our lifestyles accordingly. This book focuses on the Pacific Basin, a vast region which can be considered a microcosm of the entire surface of the Earth and which has suffered from being marginalized in most accounts of Earth-surface processes and phenomena. In this book, the Pacific Basin includes the Pacific Ocean and Islands and also the Pacific Rim which is divided into the subregions of Antarctica, South America, Central America, North America, Beringia, East Asia and Australasia. Professor Nunn begins by outlining the distant origins of the modern Pacific Basin more than 1000 million years ago, then traces its development through the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic into the Cenozoic Era. For this time the last 66 million years - the history of environmental change becomes progressively better known. For the last 1.8 million years (the Quaternary period), the Earth s climate has oscillated between warm and cool, producing synchronous environmental changes throughout most of the Pacific Basin. The importance of volcanism and tectonics (land-level movements) for which the Pacific Basin is well known as causes of environmental change is explained in detail. The effects of human activities on most Pacific Basin environments began to be registered only during the Holocene the last 12 000 years culminating in the environmental crisis which currently afflicts many parts of this region. While the role of humans in altering Pacific Basin environments is discussed in detail, considerable attention is also given to the ways in which environmental change caused changes to human lifestyles which had far-reaching consequences.

Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics and Finance

Author : Cheng-Few Lee
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787434109
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics and Finance written by Cheng-Few Lee and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics, and Finance is an annual publication designed to focus on interdisciplinary research in finance, economics, and management. It particularly emphasizes the economic, financial, and management relationships among Pacific Rim countries.

Vanished Islands and Hidden Continents of the Pacific

Author : Patrick D. Nunn
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824832191
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Vanished Islands and Hidden Continents of the Pacific written by Patrick D. Nunn and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islands—as well as entire continents—are reputed to have disappeared in many parts of the world. Yet there is little information on this subject concerning its largest ocean, the Pacific. Over the years, geologists have amassed data that point to the undeniable fact of islands having disappeared in the Pacific, a phenomenon that the oral traditions of many groups of Pacific Islanders also highlight. There are even a few instances where fragments of Pacific continents have disappeared, becoming hidden from view rather than being submerged. In this scientifically rigorous yet readily comprehensible account of the fascinating subject of vanished islands and hidden continents in the Pacific, the author ranges far and wide, from explanations of the region’s ancient history to the meanings of island myths. Using both original and up-to-date information, he shows that there is real value in bringing together myths and the geological understanding of land movements. A description of the Pacific Basin and the "ups and downs" of the land within its vast ocean is followed by chapters explaining how—long before humans arrived in this part of the world—islands and continents that no longer exist were once present. A succinct account is given of human settlement of the region and the establishment of cultural contexts for the observation of occasional catastrophic earth-surface changes and their encryption in folklore. The author also addresses the persistent myths of a "sunken continent" in the Pacific, which became widespread after European arrival and were subsequently incorporated into new age and pseudoscience explanations of our planet and its inhabitants. Finally, he presents original data and research on island disappearances witnessed by humans, recorded in oral and written traditions, and judged by geoscience to be authentic. Examples are drawn from throughout the Pacific, showing that not only have islands collapsed, and even vanished, within the past few hundred years, but that they are also liable to do so in the future.

With the Empress Dowager

Author : Katharine Augusta Carl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book With the Empress Dowager written by Katharine Augusta Carl and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

United States Scientific Geographical Exploration of the Pacific Basin, 1783-1899

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book United States Scientific Geographical Exploration of the Pacific Basin, 1783-1899 written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Relative Motions Between Oceanic and Continental Plates in the Pacific Basin

Author : David C. Engebretson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book Relative Motions Between Oceanic and Continental Plates in the Pacific Basin written by David C. Engebretson and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pacific Basin since 1945

Author : Roger C. Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131787529X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The Pacific Basin since 1945 written by Roger C. Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nations of the Pacific Basin - in East and Southeast Asia, Australasia, the Pacific islands and the Americas - make up the world's largest economic zone, and its most culturally diverse region. In recent years its Asian 'Tiger Economies' have suffered economic collapse and unfinished business from the Cold War has produced continuing conflict and instability. The new edition of this pioneering book traces the postwar inter-relationships of all the rim and island nations. It gives a unique impression of the make-up of the region, and the tensions within it. The book integrates a wide range of information from books and articles; from published and unpublished sources, including recently opened Russian and American archives; and from the first-hand experiences of participants, including those of the author, in Pacific Basin affairs. Vigorously written and strongly argued, no other account brings together all the threads of the development of international relations in this complex and fascinating region.

United States Scientific Geographical Exploration of the Pacific Basin, 1783-1899

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book United States Scientific Geographical Exploration of the Pacific Basin, 1783-1899 written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Industrial Future Of The Pacific Basin

Author : Roger Benjamin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100030244X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Industrial Future Of The Pacific Basin written by Roger Benjamin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The consequences of changing comparative advantage are transforming the economic landscapes of nations and regions around the globe. This book deals with the most significant economic factors in the rapidly changing Pacific Basin area. Part 1 considers the area’s changing patterns of industrial development and trade and examines the general implications of such changes for national industrial development policies. Part 2 consists of a set of case studies of national industrial policies in the context of factors affecting industrial structures; how applicable these policies are to other countries in the region is a central theme. Part 3 addresses the specific issues of foreign investment and domestic labor in relation to economic growth and industrial development in the Pacific Basin. Finally, in Part 4 institutional arrangements are suggested that would facilitate economic growth while, at the same time, mitigating the serious negative consequences of changing economic advantage. Such negative consequences are to some extent pervasive and can destabilize social and political development and endanger formal and informal alliances; nevertheless, the segment of humanity that has adequate food, clothing, and shelter is being permanently widened in the Pacific Basin.

Climate, Environment, and Society in the Pacific during the Last Millennium

Author : Patrick D. Nunn
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780080548210
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book Climate, Environment, and Society in the Pacific during the Last Millennium written by Patrick D. Nunn and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2007-10-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of global change in the Pacific Basin is poorly known compared to other parts of the world. Climate, Environment, and Society in the Pacific during the Last Millennium describes the climate changes that occurred in the Pacific during the last millennium and discusses how these changes controlled the broad evolution of human societies, typically filtered by the effects of changing sea level and storminess on food availability and interaction. Covering the entire period since AD 750 in the Pacific, this book describes the influences of climate change on environments and societies during the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age, focusing on the 100-year transition between these – a period of rapid change known as the AD 1300 Event. * Discusses the societal effects of climate and sea-level change, as well as the evidence for externally-driven societal change * Synthsizes how climate change has driven environmental change and societal change in the Pacific Basin * Contains a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the evidence for climate, environmental, and societal change, supported by a full list of references

Proclamation to the People

Author : Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Proclamation to the People written by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pacific basin frontier -- Nineteenth-century Mormonism and the Pacific Basin frontier : an introduction / Reid L. Neilson and Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp -- Eastward ho! American religion from the perspective of the Pacific Rim / Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp -- Americas -- The rise and decline of Mormon San Bernardino / Edward Leo Lyman -- Hoping to establish a presence : Parley P. Pratt's 1851 mission to Chile / A. Delbert Palmer and Mark L. Grover -- A providential means of agitating Mormonism? : Parley P. Pratt and the San Francisco press in the 1850s / Matthew J. Grow -- Polynesia -- Looking West : Mormonism and the Pacific world / Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp -- Mormon missionary wives in nineteenth-century Polynesia / Carol Cornwall Madsen -- Life at Iosepa, Utah's Polynesian colony / Tracey E. Panek -- Australasia -- The gathering of the Australian saints in the 1850s / Marjorie Newton -- The Mormon message in the context of Maori culture / Peter Lineham -- Nineteenth-century Pakeha Mormons in New Zealand / Marjorie Newton -- Asia -- Meetings and migrations : nineteenth-century Mormon encounters with Asians / Reid L. Neilson -- Anodyne for expansion : Meiji Japan, the Mormons, and Charles Legendre / Sandra C. Taylor -- Race, space, and Chinese life in late-nineteenth-century Salt Lake City / Michael J. Lansing.

Creating an American Lake

Author : Hal M. Friedman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313001715
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Creating an American Lake written by Hal M. Friedman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-11-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many historians of U.S. foreign relations think of the post-World War II period as a time when the United States, as an anti-colonial power, advocated collective security through the United Nations and denounced territorial aggrandizement. Yet between 1945 and 1947, the United States violated its wartime rhetoric and instead sought an imperial solution to its postwar security problems in East Asia by acquiring unilateral control of the western Pacific Islands and dominating influence throughout the entire Pacific Basin. This detailed study examines American foreign policy from the beginning of the Truman Administration to the implementation of Containment in the summer and fall of 1947. As a case study of the Truman Administration's Early Cold War efforts, it explores pre-Containment policy in light of U.S. security concerns vis-a-vis the Pearl Harbor Syndrome. The American pursuit of a secure Pacific Basin was inconsistent at the time with its foreign policy toward other areas of the world. Thus, the consolidation of power in this region was an exception to the avowed goal of a multilateral response to the policies of the Soviet Union. This example of national or strategic security went much further than simple military control; it included the cultural assimilation of the indigenous population and the unilateral exclusion of all other powers. Analyzing traditional archival records in a new light, Friedman also investigates the persisting American notions of a Westward moving frontier that stretches beyond North American territorial bounds.

The Industrial Future of the Pacific Basin

Author : Roger W. Benjamin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780885316854
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book The Industrial Future of the Pacific Basin written by Roger W. Benjamin and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Navigating the Spanish Lake

Author : Rainer F. Buschmann
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824838254
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Navigating the Spanish Lake written by Rainer F. Buschmann and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2014-05-31 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating the Spanish Lake examines Spain’s long presence in the Pacific Ocean (1521–1898) in the context of its global empire. Building on a growing body of literature on the Atlantic world and indigenous peoples in the Pacific, this pioneering book investigates the historiographical “Spanish Lake” as an artifact that unites the Pacific Rim (the Americas and Asia) and Basin (Oceania) with the Iberian Atlantic. Incorporating an impressive array of unpublished archival materials on Spain’s two most important island possessions (Guam and the Philippines) and foreign policy in the South Sea, the book brings the Pacific into the prevailing Atlanticentric scholarship, challenging many standard interpretations. By examining Castile’s cultural heritage in the Pacific through the lens of archipelagic Hispanization, the authors bring a new comparative methodology to an important field of research. The book opens with a macrohistorical perspective of the conceptual and literal Spanish Lake. The chapters that follow explore both the Iberian vision of the Pacific and indigenous counternarratives; chart the history of a Chinese mestizo regiment that emerged after Britain’s occupation of Manila in 1762-1764; and examine how Chamorros responded to waves of newcomers making their way to Guam from Europe, the Americas, and Asia. An epilogue analyzes the decline of Spanish influence against a backdrop of European and American imperial ambitions and reflects on the legacies of archipelagic Hispanization into the twenty-first century. Specialists and students of Pacific studies, world history, the Spanish colonial era, maritime history, early modern Europe, and Asian studies will welcome Navigating the Spanish Lake as a persuasive reorientation of the Pacific in both Iberian and world history.

The Pacific Basin Since 1945

Author : Roger C. Thompson
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Pacific Basin Since 1945 written by Roger C. Thompson and published by Pearson. This book was released on 1994 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Language and Language-in-Education Planning in the Pacific Basin

Author : R.B. Kaplan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401701458
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Language and Language-in-Education Planning in the Pacific Basin written by R.B. Kaplan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines and reviews the ecological context of language planning in 14 countries in the Pacific basin: Japan, the two Koreas, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. It provides the only up-to-date overview and review of language policy in the region and challenges those interested in language policy and planning to think about how such goals might be achieved in the context of language ecology.