Format:
Online-Ressource (393 p.)
ISBN:
9780816607884
Series Statement:
Europe and the World in the Age of Expansion
Content:
Islands and Empires was first published in 1976. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This is the first one-volume account of the massive impact of Western civilization on the Pacific Islands and the Far East, principally China and Japan. The effects on the two areas were very different since, in the case of the islands, contact was with peoples who were still in the Stone Age, while in the Far East Westerners came up against sophisticated ci
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Part I. The Pacific Islands; Illustrations; Part II. East Asia; Sources and Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816655502
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816607884
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Islands and Empires : Western Impact on the Pacific and East Asia
Language:
English
Keywords:
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