| Description |
xi, 596 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"A Robert Stewart book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 578-581) and index. |
| Contents |
1. The Seaborne Barbarians -- 2. The Merchant Imperialists -- 3. The Meiji Revolution: Asia's Response to the West -- 4. Japan in the World -- 5. Five Nationalists and How They Grew -- 6. Independence and the Postwar Wars -- 7. Reinventing Japan -- 8. Income Doubling and the Economic Miracle -- 9. The Confucian Capitalists -- 10. The Business Society, Asian Style -- 11. China's Continuing Revolution -- 12. Deng's Halfway House -- 13. The Fight for Democracy -- 14. The Korean Example -- 15. The Headquarters Country and Its Trading-Post Empire -- 16. Exporting the Bubble Economy -- 17. The Sentimental Imperialists -- 18. The Chinese, the Japanese, and Us -- 19. Pan-Asians and All-Americans -- 20. America's Pacific Future. |
| Summary |
"We will live more and more in a world looking westward, and we stand poised on the verge of what will truly be a 'Pacific century,'" says Frank Gibney, the author of this masterly study of the history and political development of the Asia-Pacific countries. A definable image of the Pacific Basin would include, on the eastern shore of the ocean, the principal states of North America - Canada, the United States, and Mexico. On the western shore we have China, Japan |
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Russian Asia, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, both South and North Korea, Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos included), and the ASEAN group - Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, and Brunei. Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific islands round out the list. Lavishly illustrated, with hundreds of black-and-white and color photographs, The Pacific Century traces the past one hundred and fifty years of the Pacific Basin region, from colonialism to. |
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nationalism, from military clashes to economic ones. The book also examines in depth the future of the Pacific Basin - its social problems, pollution, population growth, trade friction, and immigration - as well as the growing interdependence of the Asia-Pacific nations. As the author notes, "Our Pacific interconnections mark our common destiny." |
| Subject |
East Asia -- History.
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Pacific Area -- Relations -- United States.
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United States -- Relations -- Pacific Area.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Gibney, Frank, 1924-2006. Pacific century. New York : C. Scribner's Sons ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1992 (OCoLC)645791345 |
| ISBN |
0684193493: $40.00 ($51.95 Can.) |
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9780684193496 |
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