Asia Pacific in the Age of Globalization [electronic resource] /
Johnson, R.editor.
The essays in this volume examine United States-East Asian relations in the framework of global history, incorporating fresh insights that have been offered by scholars on such topics as globalization, human rights, historical memory, and trans-cultural relations.
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Series Editor's Preface""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Global Transformations-Historical and Contemporary Perspectives""; ""1 Asia Pacific Relations and the Globalization of the Environment""; ""2 The Community of Continents""; ""3 Power across the Pacific""; ""4 Trajectories of Nationalisms in East Asia""; ""5 Ike: The American Internationalist""; ""6 Women Leaders in Diplomacy across the Pacific""; ""7 The Fragile Stability in the Asia-Pacific: Four Future Histories""; ""8 Globalism's Conundrum""
""9 European Cooperation as a Questionable Model for Security in the Pacific Region""""Part II: Trans-Pacific History and Memory""; ""10 Human Rights: Across the Pacific Both Ways?""; ""11 The Role of Shared Experiences in Studying Sino-American Relations""; ""12 The East Asia Community and the United States""; ""13 Japan's Transition from "Greater East Asia" to a Trans-Pacific Order, 1931-1960""; ""14 Across the Pacific: Observations on the 21st-Century U.S.-China Student Movement""; ""15 Alaska, Hawai'i, and the United States as a Pacific Nation""
""16 Across the Pacific and Back to Vietnam: Transnational Legacies and Memories of the Vietnam War""""17 The 1957 Taiwan Riots: Cultural Politics in U.S.-Taiwan Relations in the 1950s""; ""Part III: Culture and Internationalism""; ""18 Religion, Ideology, Culture and the Integration/Disintegration of the Pacific World""; ""19 Emotions in Intercultural Relations""; ""20 The Rise of Cultural Diplomacy in U.S.-East Asia Relations""; ""21 Beyond the Call of Duty: Cosmopolitan Education and the Origins of Asian-American Women's Medicine""
""22 Leningrad Comes to America: The 1942 American Premiere of the Shostakovich Seventh Symphony""""23 Culture and Anti-Imperialism""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
The essays in this volume examine United States-East Asian relations in the framework of global history, incorporating fresh insights that have been offered by scholars on such topics as globalization, human rights, historical memory, and trans-cultural relations.
World politics.
Islands of the Pacific-History.
Asia-History.
Social history.
Civilization-History.
History, Modern.
Political History.
Australasian History.
Asian History.
Social History.
Cultural History.
Modern History.