Format:
Online-Ressource (171 p)
ISBN:
9780820344560
Series Statement:
Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
Content:
In the past decade the Asia-Pacific region has become a focus of international politics and military strategies. Due to China's rising economic and military strength, North Korea's nuclear tests and missile launches, tense international disputes over small island groups in the seas around Asia, and the United States pivoting a majority of its military forces to the region, the islands of the western Pacific have increasingly become the center of global attention. While the Pacific is a cur- rent hotbed of geopolitical rivalry and intense militarization, the region is also something else: a hom
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Hegemony and Affinity in the Islands of Empire; CHAPTER 2 Surveying the Baseworld; CHAPTER 3 Seeing like an Empire: Islands as Wastelands; CHAPTER 4 Local Resistances and Imperial Reactions; CHAPTER 5 Colonialism, Militarization, Tourism, and Environment as Nexus; CHAPTER 6 Networks of Affinity and Myths of the Postcolonial Pacific; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780820347783
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780820344560
Additional Edition:
Print version The Empires' Edge : Militarization, Resistance, and Transcending Hegemony in the Pacific
Language:
English
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