Pacific Strife / Kees van Dijk.

• VerfasserIn: Dijk, C. van 1946-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, [Netherlands] : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: IIAS publications series. Monographs.; Global Asia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (527 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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...

Table of Contents

• 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.