Author: Mark Borthwick
Publisher: Westview Pre
Keywords: pacific, asia, modern, emergence, century
Number of Pages: 616
Published: 2007-01-02
List price: $56.00
ISBN-10: 0813343550
ISBN-13: 9780813343556
The Asia-Pacific region is rapidly emerging as the global economic and political powerhouse of the twenty-first century. Looking at both Southeast and East Asia, this richly illustrated volume stresses broad, cross-cutting themes of regional history, with an emphasis on the interactions between cultures and nations. In this updated third edition, Mark Borthwick provides a significantly revised introduction which places the contemporary rise of China within the context of the political, cultural and economic evolution of the region since ancient times. He then considers more recent developments
Author: Mark Borthwick
Publisher: Westview Pre
Keywords: pacific, second, asia, emergence, century, modern
Number of Pages: 600
Published: 1998-02-12
List price: $56.00
ISBN-10: 0813334713
ISBN-13: 9780813334714
Poised to enter the twenty-first century, the Asia-Pacific region is rapidly emerging as a global economic and political powerhouse. Looking at both Southeast and East Asia, this illustrated volume stresses broad, cross-cutting themes of regional history, with an emphasis on the interactions between cultures and nations. New areas receiving attention in this edition include the Japanese economic slowdown, Japan’s attempts at political reform, China’s current economic dilemmas and environmental crisis, the sustainability of East Asian economic growth, the North Korean crisis, and As
Author:
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: pacific, forest, economy, basin, historical, forests, changing, perspectives
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 1992
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0822312638
ISBN-13: 9780822312635
Changing Pacific Forests examines the forest-related economy of the Pacific Basinincluding Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, China, and the Philippinesfrom a historical perspective. Drawing on a 1991 conference sponsored by the Forest History Society and the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations held in Honolulu, these papers address a range of topics related to the changing Pacific forests, including the remnants of colonialism, the emergence of the Third World, people and resources caught in the middle of policy decisions, land management, national forests, and subsistence us
Author: Staffan Linder
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: pacific, asian, dynamism, consequences, political, century, economic
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 1986-06-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0804713057
ISBN-13: 9780804713054
Authors:Christopher Brook, Anthony McGrew,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: pacific, london, england, studies, world, new, asia, order
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1998-01-26
List price: $230.00
ISBN-10: 0415172713
ISBN-13: 9780415172714
Asia-Pacific in the New World Order critically explores the notion that a distinctive regional power bloc is developing linking countries bordering the Pacific, with East Asia at its core. This student-friendly volume sheds light on the complex interplay between global, regional and national forces which have transformed the Asia-Pacific area into one of the most vibrant and economically successful regions in the world. Historical narratives alongside geopolitical and geoeconomic perspectives are deployed to examine the shifting pattern of power relations and security structures across the reg
Authors:Gordon De Brouwer, Wisarn Pupphavesa,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: pacific, conference, series, development, deregulation, financial, asia, trade
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1999-09-01
List price: $195.00
ISBN-10: 0415208424
ISBN-13: 9780415208420
This book provides an insight into financial liberalization and structural reform in the region generally and as illustrated by a number of countries. It is base on the papers presented at the Twenty-fourth Pacific Trade and Development conference held in Chiangmai, Thailand in May 1998.
Authors:Karen K. Gaul, Jackie Hiltz,
Publisher: M E Sharpe Inc
Keywords: pacific, maureen, study, mike, mansfield, center, northwest, asia, communities, rim, cultural, perspectives, landscapes
Number of Pages: 254
Published: 2000-01
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 0765605120
ISBN-13: 9780765605122
