UID:
almafu_9959240003302883
Umfang:
1 online resource (277 p.)
ISBN:
1-280-67993-X
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9786613656865
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1-4422-1583-6
Serie:
Asia/Pacific/perspectives
Inhalt:
This original and fresh book explores Okinawa's makeover as a tourist mecca in the long historical shadow and among the physical ruins of the Pacific War's most devastating land battle. Gerald Figal considers how a place burdened by a history of semicolonialism, memories of war and occupation, economic hardship, and contentious current political affairs has reshaped itself into a resort destination. He traces cultural, political, social, and economic issues of Okinawa's postwar experience to the present through the innovative frame of tourism development-both as it has been i
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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pt. 1. Grave and caves -- pt. 2. Creations and recreations -- pt. 3. Bases and beaches.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-4422-1581-X
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-4422-1582-8
Sprache:
Englisch
