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Author Gibney, Frank, 1924-2006.

Title The Pacific century : America and Asia in a changing world / Frank Gibney
Published New York : C. Scribner's Sons ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, [1992]
©1992

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 MELB  950 Gib/Pca  AVAILABLE
Description xi, 596 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Contents 1. The Seaborne Barbarians -- 2. The Merchant Imperialists -- 3. The Meiji Revolution: Asia's Response to the West -- 4. Japan in the World -- 5. Five Nationalists and How They Grew -- 6. Independence and the Postwar Wars -- 7. Reinventing Japan -- 8. Income Doubling and the Economic Miracle -- 9. The Confucian Capitalists -- 10. The Business Society, Asian Style -- 11. China's Continuing Revolution -- 12. Deng's Halfway House -- 13. The Fight for Democracy -- 14. The Korean Example -- 15. The Headquarters Country and Its Trading-Post Empire -- 16. Exporting the Bubble Economy -- 17. The Sentimental Imperialists -- 18. The Chinese, the Japanese, and Us -- 19. Pan-Asians and All-Americans -- 20. America's Pacific Future
Summary 000545853 - 99/615 A Robert Stewart book
Analysis East Asia History
Pacific Area Relations United States
United States Relations Pacific Area
Notes "A Robert Stewart book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 578-581) and index
SUBJECT Far East -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006029
Pacific Area http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096445 -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007590 -- United States. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095330
United States -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140497 -- Pacific Area. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096445
Author Barrett, Michael (Lecturer)
LC no. 92013862
ISBN 0684193493