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1 online resource (268 pages) |
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Routledge Revivals |
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Routledge revivals.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures, Maps, and Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 In Search of Periodization for Pacific History: An Introduction; Overview; The silver period; Exploration and early integration of the South and North Pacific with 'the Rim' c.1750â#x80;#x93;c.1850; The gold period; Individual articles in this volume; Silver Period 1571â#x80;#x93;c. 1750; The exploration and early integration period c. 1750â#x80;#x93;c. 1850; The gold period c. second-half of the nineteenth century; Imperial strategies after the gold period; Conclusion; Notes |
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2 Soft Gold: Animal Skins and the Early Economy of CaliforniaNotes; 3 San Francisco's Pacific Exports, 1850â#x80;#x93;1898; Gold and silver exports; San Francisco Exports, 1861â#x80;#x93;1863; Merchandise Exports, 1870â#x80;#x93;81; Merchandise Exports, 1882â#x80;#x93;1898; Quicksilver exports; Omitted exports; Summary; Notes; References; 4 Powerhouse Economies of the Pacific: A Comparative Study of Gold and Wheat in Nineteenth-Century Victoria and California; The effect of gold; Agriculture and declining wheatfields; Further areas for comparison; References; 5 New Zealand and the Gold Rushes of the Mid-nineteenth Century |
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Causes and timing of discoveries in New ZealandThe impact of Australian discoveries on New Zealand; New Zealand and the impact of its own gold rushes; In conclusion; Note; Figures and tables; References; 6 Gold Rush California Bound: New Evidence from French Passenger Lists; Mainly paupers?; The sources; From all over France; The occupations; Women; The Golden Ingots; In the mines; Conclusion; References; Appendix; 7 The Rim of Fire: Pacific Rim Cities and the Problem of Fires; City growth and the problems of fires; Responses to the problem; Conclusions; References |
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8 World War I, the American Interior, and Pacific Markets: A Look at Distant ImpactsNotes; 9 Race and the Right Kind of Island: Immigration Policy in Hawaii and Cuba under US Auspices, 1899â#x80;#x93;1912; Contract labor in Hawaii; Contract labor in Cuba; Race and citizenship in Hawaii; Conclusion; Note; References; Archival sources; 10 The 1934 Tydingsâ#x80;#x93;McDuffie Act and Filipino Exclusion: Social, Political and Economic Context Revisited; California and the Pacific West Coast; Congress, the Depression, and Filipino exclusion; Race and the political and economic context; Race; Notes |
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11 Communists, Christians, and Japanese Imperial Subjects: Okinawan Immigrants within the Japanese Diaspora, 1899 to 1941Background to Okinawan migration; Subjects of Imperial Japan; Immigrant strategies; Immigrant institutions and immigrant identities; Conclusions; Note; References; 12 Hong Kong: Constitutional Development and Corporate Culture; The charge: 150 years without enfranchisement; The reason for Hong Kong; The consequent constitutional structure; Corporate culture and the potential electorate; Government and merchant, the rationale for authoritarian rule |
| Notes |
Discontinuity in the merchant community |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Giráldez, Arturo
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Sobredo, James
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| ISBN |
9781351742498 |
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1351742493 |
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