Book Description
Documents the political, social and military context of the Second World War as it affected Kiribati. Uses oral and written accounts from people directly involved and official records.
Author : Peter McQuarrie
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 30,82 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Kiribati
ISBN :
Documents the political, social and military context of the Second World War as it affected Kiribati. Uses oral and written accounts from people directly involved and official records.
Author : Howard Van Trease
Publisher : [email protected]
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 25,3 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Kiribati
ISBN : 9780958330008
Author :
Publisher : [email protected]
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,60 MB
Release : 1984
Category :
ISBN : 9789820200517
Author : Jamie Faye Morgan
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,83 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Environmental degradation
ISBN :
Author : Barrie Macdonald
Publisher : [email protected]
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 35,17 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9789820203358
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 13,38 MB
Release : 1980
Category :
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Author : Peter McQuarrie
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 20,26 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780971412781
World War Two history remembers the Gilbert Islands for the Battle of Tarawa, the US Marines' first bold amphibious assault against a Japanese stronghold in the Pacific Islands. But there is much more to the WWII story of the Gilbert Islands than a single battle. In addition to the Battle of Tarawa, this book also tells of the periods of Japanese and American occupations, of coast-watching and German raiders. This history of a time and place is also a story of the people involved. In addition to the Americans and Japanese it is also the story of Gilbert and Ellice Islanders, New Zealanders, British, Chinese, German-Marshallese and "Kai Viti" people (British Fiji Citizens), who by one means or another became caught up in the war in the Gilbert Islands. The author has used oral and written accounts of people who were directly involved, as well as official records in archives in Kiribati, Fiji, Tuvalu, New Zealand, the United States and Australia. This is a thoroughly researched, comprehensive and unique account of WWII as experienced in these small and remote atolls of the Central Pacific.
Author : Bernard Eccleston
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415172790
The Asia-Pacific Profile offers a unique combination of maps, diagrams, documents, and statistical data covering every state around and within the Pacific: North-East and South-East Asia, the western rim of Central and South America, the Pacific island states, the Russian Far East, North America, and Australia. Key features include over 25 historical and contemporary maps featuring flows of labour, trade, investment, tourists and telecommunications, and empires, wars, colonial struggles and environmental degradation; succinct surveys of historical developments and contemporary political issues; over 500 diagrams depicting key demographic, economic and social changes since 1970 with appendices showing the actual data used and their sources; and key documents that have shaped the Asia-Pacific including founding charters of contemporary organizations such as APEC, ASEAN, NAFTA and the WTO, treaties and declarations that started and later resolved conflicts within and between states over politico-economic issues, and essential social rights documents concerning indigenous peoples. The Asia-Pacific Profile has been designed for those studying or with a general interest in the politics, economics and international relations of the Asia-Pacific region.
Author : Peter McQuarrie
Publisher : [email protected]
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 27,18 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Tuvalu
ISBN : 9780958330053
Author : Martin Gegner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136673822
The Heritage of War is an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which heritage is mobilized in remembering war, and in reconstructing landscapes, political systems and identities after conflict. It examines the deeply contested nature of war heritage in a series of places and contexts, highlighting the modes by which governments, communities, and individuals claim validity for their own experiences of war, and the meanings they attach to them. From colonizing violence in South America to the United States’ Civil War, the Second World War on three continents, genocide in Rwanda and continuing divisions in Europe and the Middle East, these studies bring us closer to the very processes of heritage production. The Heritage of War uncovers the histories of heritage: it charts the constant social and political construction of heritage sites over time, by a series of different agents, and explores the continuous reworking of meaning into the present. What are the forces of contingency, agency and political power that produce, define and sustain the heritage of war? How do particular versions of the past and particular identities gain legitimacy, while others are marginalised? In this book contributors explore the active work by which heritage is produced and reproduced in a series of case studies of memorialization, battlefield preservation, tourism development, private remembering and urban reconstruction. These are the acts of making sense of war; they are acts that continue long after violent conflict itself has ended.