ASIA IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS: REPLACING THE WEST Tapa blanda - 2007

Suva: IPS Publications / University of the South Pacific. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2007. First Edition. Softcover. 9820203880 . No signatures. Price sticker on rear cover.; xix, [1], 624 pages. Large softcover book. Page dimensions: 250 x 174mm. Maps on endpapers. Politics, Pacific. "A spectacular transition is underway in the Pacific Islands, as a result of which all our lives will be radically different. While the original Pacific people came from Asia, for most of the past century and earlier, nearly all Pacific Islands nations were colonies of 'Western' powers. But in the last fifty years or so, Asia has begun to play a bigger and bigger role in all aspects of Islands life - migration, trade and investments, aid and development, politics, strategic relations, crime, education and employment, information and media, religion, culture and sports. It is replacing the West. The process is irreversible. With his trademark breadth and depth of knowledge and understanding of… Leer más

IPS Publications. 2007. Trade paperback. Fine. 2 index pages were bound upside down. 622 p. Includes: illustrations, index, bibliography. . A spectacular transition is in the Pacific Islands, as a result of which all our lives will be radically different. While the original Pacific people came from Asia, for most of the past century and earlier, nearly all Pacific Islands nations were colonies of 'Western' powers. But in the last fifty years or so, Asia has begun to play a bigger and bigger role in all aspects of Islands life-migration, trade and investments, aid and development, politics, strategic relations, crime, education and employment, information and media, religion, culture and sports. It is replacing the West. The process is irreversible. With his trademark breadth and depth of knowledge and understanding of the region, based on over half a century of experience, study and deliberation, Ron Crocombe documents the early connections between Asia and the Pacific, details recent and continuing… Leer más