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Transpacific Studies

Transpacific Studies

Leong, Russell
Hoskins, Janet Alison
Nguyen, Viet Thanh

Hardcover

Series: Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Stud, Book 25

Australia & OceaniaAnthropologyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0824839943
ISBN13: 9780824839949
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: Aug 13 2014
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The Pacific has long been a space of conquest, exploration, fantasy, and resistance. Pacific Islanders had established civilizations and cultures of travel well before European explorers arrived, initiating centuries of upheaval and transformation. The twentieth century, with its various wars fought in and over the Pacific, is only the most recent era to witness military strife and economic competition. While Asia Pacific and Pacific Rim were late twentieth-century terms that dealt with the importance of the Pacific to the economic, political, and cultural arrangements that span Asia and the Americas, a new term has arisen--the transpacific. In the twenty-first century, U.S. efforts to dominate the ocean are symbolized not only in the Pacific pivot of American policy but also the development of a Transpacific Partnership. This partnership brings together a dozen countries--not including China--in a trade pact whose aim is to cement U.S. influence. That pact signals how the transpacific, up to now an academic term, has reached mass consciousness.

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