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Transpacific visions : connected histories of the Pacific across North and South / edited by Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi, and Shinnosuke Takahashi.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transnationalism--History--20th century.
- Transnationalism.
- Pacific Area--History--20th century.
- Pacific Area.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 pages)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Other Title:
- Connected histories of the Pacific across North and South
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]
- Summary:
- This book highlights the significance of North-South connections as a part of transpacific history. The little-known stories it tells of such "vertical" encounters across the Pacific Ocean complicates established historical narratives which focus instead on "horizontal" connections between the United States and Asia.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Global Mobilities amid the Pandemic
- A Lens of Human Mobilities
- "Vertical" Mobilities and Connections
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Chapter 1: Meaningful Connections: Reflections on Transpacific Consciousness
- The Pacific between Inclusion, Exclusion, and Occlusion
- "Asians" in Papua New Guinea History and in Historical Consciousness
- Moral Triangles
- "Asians" in History . . .
- . . . and Historical Consciousness
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2: Promise and Protection: New Guinea Villagers and the Role of Christianity during the Pacific War
- God Sends Trials: Lutheranism in the Huon Peninsula, New Guinea
- Confessional Autobiography and Community History
- Displaced by War: Indentured Laborers and District Unity
- "Ordered . . . Sternly Not to Cause Problems for the Christians": The Japanese Occupation
- Chasing the Eucharist Wine
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 3: Anthropology and Colonial Administration in Transpacific Perspective: Australian "Government Anthropology" in New Guinea and Japanese "Practical Ethnology" in the South Sea Islands, 1924-1941
- Anthropology and Australian Colonial Administration
- E. W. P. Chinnery and Government Anthropology in New Guinea
- Kyūkan Chōsa and Japanese Colonial Administration
- Sugiura Ken'ichi and Practical Ethnology in the South Sea Islands and Beyond
- Chapter 4: Australian Military Sexual Adventurism in the New Guinea Campaign, 1942-1945
- Prewar Australian Sexual Exploitation in Papua and New Guinea
- Prior Military Experience of Prostitution Perpetrated in the Middle East, North Africa, and Australia
- Lax Military Discipline in the New Guinea Campaign
- Notes.
- Bibliography
- Chapter 5: Japan's Last Colonial Frontier: Settler Migration, Development, and Expansionism in the Brazilian Amazon
- The Role of Migration in Japan's Nation- and Empire-Building
- Historic Background of Japanese Migrations to Brazil
- The Beginnings of Japanese Migrations to the Amazon and the Establishment of the Amazonia Industrial Institute
- Initial Difficulties amid Growing Nationalism in Brazil
- Overlapping Nationalisms in Japanese-Brazilian Joint Efforts for Jute Production
- Chapter 6: War Movements of People: War Evacuees and Military Linguists of Japanese Language in Australia during the Pacific War
- War Mobilities
- How Japanese Language Was Perceived in Australia before WWII
- Pressing Need for Japanese Linguists in Australian Military Intelligence
- Chapter 7: The Hiroshima Panels and Australia
- The Antinuclear Movement and the Art of Peace
- The Hiroshima Panels and the World Tour
- The Hiroshima Panels' Australian Tour and the Development of a Transpacific Peace Movement
- Chapter 8: The Journey to the Archipelago: Shimao Toshio, Southern Localism, and the Dream of Japanesia
- Against Absence of the History
- Making Southern Localism
- Chapter 9: Fantastic and Fanciful Gazes at Pacific Island women: Japanese Travel Journalist Kanetaka Kaoru's Impressions from Her Journey in 1961
- Kanetaka Kaoru: Television Travel Journalist
- In Praise of Fijian Beauty
- The Ogre and Ladies: Alcohol and Comportment
- Kanetaka's Encounter with a Monster
- References
- In Place of Conclusion: Weaving the Pacific
- Notes on Name Convention
- Index
- About the Editors and Contributors
- Editors.
- Contributors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-9787-3804-8
- 1-7936-2133-0
- OCLC:
- 1260689773
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