Pacific Strife : The Great Powers and their Political and Economic Rivalries in Asia and the Western Pacific, 1870-1914 /

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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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Autor principal: Dijk, C. van (Cornelis), 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
History & Archaeology.
Regions & Countries - Australia & Pacific Islands - Oceania.
Politics and government.
Eastern question (Far East)
Diplomatic relations.
Colonies.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
HISTORY / Asia / General.
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900.
History: earliest times to present day.
History.
Humanities.
Question d'Orient (Extrême-Orient)
Colonies > Oceania.
Colonies > Asia.
Pacific Area.
Oceania.
Asia.
Pacifique, Region du > Relations exterieures.
Pacific Area > Foreign relations.
Pacific Area > Politics and government.
Electronic books.
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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.

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