Bulletins

Bulletins

Author: American Warehousemen's Association

Publisher:

Published: 1912

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13:

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The Southern Pacific, 1901-1985

The Southern Pacific, 1901-1985

Author: Donovan L. Hofsommer

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9781603441278

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Don Hofsommer chronicles the twentieth-century history of a transportation giant. Here is a story of divestiture and merger, Sunset Route, and Prosperity Special. " . . . a treasure house of information about the Southern Pacific Company . . . . This book is a joy to read."--Richard C. Overton, from the Foreword


The Southern Pacific in Los Angeles, 1873-1996

The Southern Pacific in Los Angeles, 1873-1996

Author: Larry Mullaly

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780870951183

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Get the fascinating story of how steel rails transformed an isolated ranching and agricultural center into the West's greatest city. An unforgettable walk through time recaptures the West's most powerful railroad.


Statebuilding and State Formation in the Western Pacific

Statebuilding and State Formation in the Western Pacific

Author: Matthew Allen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-04-19

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 131546375X

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This book provides a rigorous and cross-disciplinary analysis of this Melanesian nation at a critical juncture in its post-colonial and post-conflict history, with contributions from leading scholars of Solomon Islands. The notion of ‘transition’ as used to describe the recent drawdown of the decade-long Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) provides a departure point for considering other transformations – social, political and economic –under way in the archipelagic nation. Organised around a central tension between change and continuity, two of the book’s key themes are the contested narratives of changing state–society relations and the changing social relations around land and natural resources engendered by ongoing processes of globalisation and urbanisation. Drawing heuristically on RAMSI’s genesis in the ‘state- building moment’ that dominated international relations during the first decade of this century, the book also examines the critical distinction between ‘state-building’ and ‘state formation’ in the Solomon Islands context. It engages with global scholarly and policy debates on issues such as peacebuilding, state-building, legal pluralism, hybrid governance, globalisation, urbanisation and the governance of natural resources. These themes resonate well beyond Solomon Islands and Melanesia, and the book will be of interest to a wide range of students, scholars and development practitioners. This book was previously published as a special issue of The Journal of Pacific History.