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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Pacific World"”.
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Crafting Citizens Beyond Borders: Japanese Education on the Frontier of Japan’s Empire in the Americas
… and developed nikkei citizenship across the Pacific. Japanese education codified a set of civic and moral responsibilities defined in conjunction with Japan, creating competing notions of civic belonging to the Japanese Empire. Overseas communities also used education to position their …
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Peasants, Servants, and Sojourners: Itinerant Asians in Colonial New Spain, 1571-1720
… had origins all over Asia. Chinos crossed the Pacific on the Manila galleons, which sailed between the Philippines and Mexico. These ships facilitated the exchange of American products, mostly silver, for Asian products, primarily textiles. This study explores the social and spatial mobility of …
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The Marvel of Civilization: A Missiological History of the Evangelical Missionaries to California During the Gold Rush Era (1848 - 1861)
… emerged both from California’s connection to the Pacific Ocean and the missiological expansion of eastern home missionary organizations into the American West in the decades prior to 1848. Before 1848, evangelical missionaries did not come to California due to the perceived influence of Roman …
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Planter's Paradise: Nature, Culture, and Hawaiʻi’s Sugarcane Plantations
… economic insignificance to become one of the world’s most efficient and productive sugarcane plantation systems. "Planter's Paradise" traces the transnational environmental history of cane planting in Hawaiʻi, from Polynesian settlement to the early twentieth century, to explore how an …
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Incomplete Conquests in the Philippine Archipelago, 1565-1700
… between China, Latin America and Europe via the Pacific crossing, changing the history of global trade forever. The traditional understanding of the early colonial period in the Philippines suggests that colonial control spread rapidly and peacefully across the islands, ushering in dramatic …
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The Construction of Airfields during the New Georgia Campaign of 1943-44: Lessons Learned by the United States Naval Construction Battalions.
… Fighting Seabees</em> and the musical, <em>South Pacific</em>. While capturing the ingenious determination that birthed their motto '˜Can Do', these incomplete pictures don't portray the complexity of construction under combat conditions in a harshly unforgiving and demanding …