Pacific Asia in the global system : an introduction /
Introduction
P.W. Preston.
- viii, 283 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- The Shift to the Modern World -- Classical Social Theory -- The Shift to the Modern World in Pacific Asia -- Analysing the Process of the Shift to the Modern World in Pacific Asia -- From Ancient Empires to Nineteenth-century Industrial-capitalism -- The Shift to the Modern World: Reactions, Resistance and Empire -- After the Pacific War: Decolonization, Nation-building and the Cold War -- The Emergence of Pacific Asia -- Changing Relationships in Contemporary Pacific Asia -- The Region and the Global System -- Changing Patterns of Relations between Japan, the USA and China -- Contemporary Pacific Asia in the 1990s -- The Development Experience of Pacific Asia -- The Particularity of the Historical Development Experience of Pacific Asia -- The Pacific Asian Model I: Political-economic and Social-Institutional Processes -- The Pacific Asian Model II: Cultural and Political-cultural Processes -- Pacific Asia in the New Global System -- Pacific Asia in the Twenty-first Century Global System -- Bibliography -- Index. Pt. I. 1. Pt. II. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pt. III. 7. 8. 9. Pt. IV. 10. 11. 12. Pt. V. 13.
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