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'The most significant issue that Dockrill addresses is that of how
Japan views the war in retrospect, a question which not only tells
us a lot about how events were seen in Japan in 1941 but is also, a
matter still of importance in contemporary East Asian politics.'
Antony Best, London School of Economics This multi-authored work,
edited by Saki Dockrill, is an original, unique, and controversial
interpretation of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific. Dr
Dockrill, the author of Britain's Policy for West German
Rearmament, has skilfully converted the proceedings of an
international conference held in London into a stimulating and
readable account of the Pacific War. This is a valuable
contribution to our knowledge of the subject.
'The most significant issue that Dockrill addresses is that of how
Japan views the war in retrospect, a question which not only tells
us a lot about how events were seen in Japan in 1941 but is also, a
matter still of importance in contemporary East Asian politics.'
Antony Best, London School of Economics This multi-authored work,
edited by Saki Dockrill, is an original, unique, and controversial
interpretation of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific. Dr
Dockrill, the author of Britain's Policy for West German
Rearmament, has skilfully converted the proceedings of an
international conference held in London into a stimulating and
readable account of the Pacific War. This is a valuable
contribution to our knowledge of the subject.
With their power to create a sense of proximity and empathy,
photographs have long been a crucial means of exchanging ideas
between people across the globe; this book explores the role of
photography in shaping ideas about race and difference from the
1840s to the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights. Focusing on
Australian experience in a global context, a rich selection of case
studies - drawing on a range of visual genres, from portraiture to
ethnographic to scientific photographs - show how photographic
encounters between Aboriginals, missionaries, scientists,
photographers and writers fuelled international debates about
morality, law, politics and human rights.Drawing on new archival
research, Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire is essential reading
for students and scholars of race, visuality and the histories of
empire and human rights.
A Matter of Life and Death is a collection of new work on the
Falklands Conflict by leading authorities in the field, British and
Argentine. The themes of the volume are defence and diplomacy, and
the problematic relationship between the two. The authors
investigate all aspects of the conflict from the relevance of
Falklands/Malvinas past, through the diplomatic and military crisis
of 1982, to the shifts in public opinion in both countries.
Contributors include Peter Beck, Peter Calvert, Alex Danchev,
Lawrence Freedman, Virginia Gamba-Stonehouse, Guillermo Makin and
Paul Rogers.
An examination of France's presence in the South Pacific after the
takeover of Tahiti. It places the South Pacific in the context of
overall French expansion and current theories of colonialism and
imperialism and evaluates the French impact on Oceania.
This historical study of the development of social welfare systems
in divergent countries draws on a variety of essays to examine the
work of each country in turn, followed by a comparison of all three
and an examination of social experiments in regions of recent
settlement.
This project documents the rich source material in European and
North American repositories relating to the history of countries
formerly under colonial rule. The manuscript and document holdings
of public and private archives, libraries, museums and other
institutions referred to in the guide cover all aspects of history.
The primary emphasis is on political, diplomatic, commercial and
military history, but there is good coverage of cultural history -
especially in the reports and correspondence of explorers and
travellers in missionary archives. Each series, of which this is
the third, is arranged by country; sources within national volumes
are described by repositories and archival groups.
Honourable Intentions? compares the significance and strategic use
of 'honour' in two colonial societies, the Cape Colony and the
early British settlements in Australia, between 1750 and 1850. The
mobile populations of emigrants and sojourners, sailors and
soldiers, merchants and traders, slaves and convicts who surged
into and through these regions are not usually associated with
ideas of honour. But in both societies, competing and contradictory
notions of honour proved integral to the ways in which colonisers
and colonised, free and unfree, defended their status and insisted
on their right to be treated with respect. During these times of
flux, concepts of honour and status were radically reconstructed.
Each of the thirteen chapters considers honour in a particular
sphere - legal, political, religious or personal - and in different
contexts determined by the distinctive and changing matrix of race,
gender and class, as well as the distinctions of free and unfree
status in each colony. Early chapters in the volume show how and
why the political, ideological and moral stakes of the concept of
honour were particularly important in colonial societies; later
chapters look more closely at the social behaviour and the purchase
of honour among specific groups. Collectively, the chapters show
that there was no clear distinction between political and social
life, and that honour crossed between the public and private
spheres. This exciting new collection brings together new and
established historians of Australia and South Africa to highlight
thought-provoking parallels and contrasts between the Cape and
Australian colonies that will be of interest to all scholars of
colonial societies and the concept of honour.
This series aims to reflect the richness and vitality of
contemporary work in this discipline. The volumes included, explore
not only current developments within social and cultural
anthropology, but also the interfaces between these areas and such
fields as biological anthropology and archaeology. They challenge
established conventions and represent a significant advance in a
range of areas of anthropological enquiry which should be of
interest to an international readership.
This volume provides a unique and critical perspective on how
Chinese, Japanese and Korean scholars engage and critique the West
in their historical thinking. It showcases the dialogue between
Asian experts and their Euro-American counterparts and offers
valuable insights on how to challenge and overcome Eurocentrism in
historical writing.
From one of the leading Maori scholars of his generation and one of
our greatest photographers comes this beautifully illustrated work
that serves as a fine overview of leadership and challenges for
Maori today. After a general introduction to Maori history, Te Ara
focuses on the stories of iwi in five regions -- Hokianga,
Peowhairangi (Bay of Islands) Tamaki Makaurau (Auckland), Waiariki
(Rotorua-Taupo) and Murihiku (Otago-Southland). This trilingual
publication -- in Maori, English and German -- will be of value for
general readers, visitors, students of Maori and exhibition goers.
Honourable Intentions? compares the significance and strategic use
of 'honour' in two colonial societies, the Cape Colony and the
early British settlements in Australia, between 1750 and 1850. The
mobile populations of emigrants and sojourners, sailors and
soldiers, merchants and traders, slaves and convicts who surged
into and through these regions are not usually associated with
ideas of honour. But in both societies, competing and contradictory
notions of honour proved integral to the ways in which colonisers
and colonised, free and unfree, defended their status and insisted
on their right to be treated with respect. During these times of
flux, concepts of honour and status were radically reconstructed.
Each of the thirteen chapters considers honour in a particular
sphere - legal, political, religious or personal - and in different
contexts determined by the distinctive and changing matrix of race,
gender and class, as well as the distinctions of free and unfree
status in each colony. Early chapters in the volume show how and
why the political, ideological and moral stakes of the concept of
honour were particularly important in colonial societies; later
chapters look more closely at the social behaviour and the purchase
of honour among specific groups. Collectively, the chapters show
that there was no clear distinction between political and social
life, and that honour crossed between the public and private
spheres. This exciting new collection brings together new and
established historians of Australia and South Africa to highlight
thought-provoking parallels and contrasts between the Cape and
Australian colonies that will be of interest to all scholars of
colonial societies and the concept of honour.
Consuming Ocean Island tells the story of the land and people of
Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was
heavily mined for phosphate, an essential ingredient in fertilizer.
As mining stripped away the island's surface, the land was rendered
uninhabitable, and the indigenous Banabans were relocated to Rabi
Island in Fiji. Katerina Martina Teaiwa tells the story of this
human and ecological calamity by weaving together memories,
records, and images from displaced islanders, colonial
administrators, and employees of the mining company. Her compelling
narrative reminds us of what is at stake whenever the interests of
industrial agriculture and indigenous minorities come into
conflict. The Banaban experience offers insight into the plight of
other island peoples facing forced migration as a result of human
impact on the environment.
A new history of globalization and empire at the crossroads of the
Pacific. Located halfway between Hawai'i and Australia, the islands
of Samoa have long been a center of Oceanian cultural and economic
exchange. Accustomed to exercising agency in trade and diplomacy,
Samoans found themselves enmeshed in a new form of globalization
after missionaries and traders arrived in the middle of the
nineteenth century. As the great powers of Europe and America
competed to bring Samoa into their orbits, Germany and the United
States eventually agreed to divide the islands for their burgeoning
colonial holdings. In Coconut Colonialism, Holger Droessler
examines the Samoan response through the lives of its workers.
Ordinary Samoans-some on large plantations, others on their own
small holdings-picked and processed coconuts and cocoa, tapped
rubber trees, and built roads and ports that brought cash crops to
Europe and North America. At the same time, Samoans redefined their
own way of being in the world-what Droessler terms "Oceanian
globality"-to challenge German and American visions of a global
economy that in fact served only the needs of Western capitalism.
Through cooperative farming, Samoans contested the exploitative
wage-labor system introduced by colonial powers. The islanders also
participated in ethnographic shows around the world, turning them
into diplomatic missions and making friends with fellow colonized
peoples. Samoans thereby found ways to press their own agendas and
regain a degree of independence. Based on research in multiple
languages and countries, Coconut Colonialism offers new insights
into the global history of labor and empire at the dawn of the
twentieth century.
"A Companion to Japanese History" provides an authoritative
overview of current debates and approaches within the study of
Japan's history.
Composed of 30 chapters written by an international group of
scholars
Combines traditional perspectives with the most recent scholarly
concerns
Supplements a chronological survey with targeted thematic
analyses
Presents stimulating interventions into individual controversies
The hard-hitting history of the Pacific War's 'forgotten battle' of
Peleliu - a story of intelligence failings and impossible bravery.
In late 1944, as a precursor to the invasion of the Philippines,
U.S. military analysts decided to seize the small island of Peleliu
to ensure that the Japanese airfield there could not threaten the
invasion forces. This important new book explores the dramatic
story of this 'forgotten' battle and the campaign's strategic
failings. Bitter Peleliu reveals how U.S. intelligence officers
failed to detect the complex network of caves, tunnels, and
pillboxes hidden inside the island's coral ridges. More
importantly, they did not discern - nor could they before it
happened - that the defense of Peleliu would represent a tectonic
shift in Japanese strategy. No more contested enemy landings at the
water's edge, no more wild banzai attacks. Now, invaders would be
raked on the beaches by mortar and artillery fire. Then, as the
enemy penetrated deeper into the Japanese defensive systems, he
would find himself on ground carefully prepared for the purpose of
killing as many Americans as possible. For the battle-hardened 1st
Marine Division Peleliu was a hornets' nest like no other. Yet
thanks to pre-invasion over-confidence on the part of commanders,
30 of the 36 news correspondents accredited for the campaign had
left prior to D-Day. Bitter Peleliu reveals the full horror of this
74-day battle, a battle that thanks to the reduced media presence
has never garnered the type of attention it deserves. Pacific War
historian Joseph Wheelan dissects the American intelligence and
strategic failings, analyses the shift in Japanese tactics, and
recreates the Marines' horrific experiences on the worst of the
Pacific battlegrounds. This book is a brilliant, compelling read on
a forgotten battle.
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