Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World

Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World

Author: Gregory T. Cushman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-03-25

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1107004136

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This book traces the history of bird guano, demonstrating how this unique commodity helped unite the Pacific Basin with the industrialized world.


Pacific Worlds

Pacific Worlds

Author: Matt K. Matsuda

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-01-19

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 0521887631

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Essential single-volume history of the Pacific region and the global interactions which define it.


Art and War in the Pacific World

Art and War in the Pacific World

Author: J.M. Mancini

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2018-04-03

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 0520294513

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"Recent years have witnessed a surge in interest the Pacific world as a hub for the global trade in art objects. Yet, the history of art and architecture has seldom reckoned with another profound aspect of the region's history: its exposure to global conflict. Art and War in the Pacific World provides a new view of the Pacific world, and of global artistic interaction, by exploring how the making, alteration, looting, and destruction of images, objects, buildings, and landscapes intersected with the exercise of force during the British and U.S. military incursions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries"--Provided by publisher.


Gendering the Trans-Pacific World

Gendering the Trans-Pacific World

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-03-06

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 9004336109

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As the inaugural volume of the new Brill book series Gendering the Trans-Pacific World: Diaspora, Empire, and Race, this anthology presents an emergent interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field that highlights the inextricable link between gender and the trans-Pacific world. The anthology features twenty-one chapters by new and established scholars and writers. They collectively examine the geographies of empire, the significance of intimacy and affect, the importance of beauty and the body, and the circulation of culture. This is an ideal volume to introduce advanced undergraduate and graduate students to Transpacific Studies and gender as a category of analysis. Gendering the Trans-Pacific World: Diaspora, Empire, and Race is now available in paperback for individual customers.


Measurement of Cardiovascular Function

Measurement of Cardiovascular Function

Author: John H. McNeill

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2019-06-04

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1000013065

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First Published in 1997, Measurement of Cardiovascular Function answers the crucial need for a straightforward guide for cardiac researchers to develop techniques from scratch in the laboratory. The techniques detailed represent major models and methods used in assessing cardiac function in physiological and pathological conditions. The book presents in-depth descriptions of several sophisticated cardiac preparations and includes chapters on the lipid-perfused heart, metabolic measurements, models of arrhythmia, blood pressure monitoring, and models of hypertension. This book examines the most widely used tools in experimental cardiology and provides you with the recipe-setting up the technique, procurement of equipment, sample data and calculations, problems and trouble shooting, adapting to other species, modifications, and applicability. Undoubtedly, this text will be a great asset to cardiovascular physiologists, pharmacologists, experimental cardiologists, and students of physiology and pharmacology.


Beyond Hawai'i

Beyond Hawai'i

Author: Gregory Rosenthal

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2018-05-04

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0520967968

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In the century from the death of Captain James Cook in 1779 to the rise of the sugar plantations in the 1870s, thousands of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) men left Hawai‘i to work on ships at sea and in na ‘aina ‘e (foreign lands)—on the Arctic Ocean and throughout the Pacific Ocean, and in the equatorial islands and California. Beyond Hawai‘i tells the stories of these forgotten indigenous workers and how their labor shaped the Pacific World, the global economy, and the environment. Whether harvesting sandalwood or bird guano, hunting whales, or mining gold, these migrant workers were essential to the expansion of transnational capitalism and global ecological change. Bridging American, Chinese, and Pacific historiographies, Beyond Hawai‘i is the first book to argue that indigenous labor—more than the movement of ships and spread of diseases—unified the Pacific World.


The Pacific Century

The Pacific Century

Author: Frank Gibney

Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13:

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000545853 - 99/615 A Robert Stewart book.


Pacific Island Battlegrounds of World War II

Pacific Island Battlegrounds of World War II

Author: Earl R. Hinz

Publisher: Bess Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9781573060080

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Highlights decisive WWII military operations in Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia, and their effects on the islands. Illustrations, maps, and index.


War Under the Pacific

War Under the Pacific

Author: Keith Wheeler

Publisher: Time Life Medical

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780783557083

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Text and illustrations describe submarine warfare in the Pacific during World War II.


Forced Migration in the Spanish Pacific World

Forced Migration in the Spanish Pacific World

Author: Eva Maria Mehl

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-07-11

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1107136792

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An exploration of the deportation of Mexican military recruits and vagrants to the Philippines between 1765 and 1811.