Pacific Strife / Kees van Dijk.
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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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. |
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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.