Pacific Strife
In the late 1800's and early 1900's, 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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam, [Netherlands] :
Amsterdam University Press
2015
2015. |
| Colección: | IIAS publications series. Monographs.
Global Asia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 5. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419801706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
