Author: Preston, P.W.
Title: Pacific Asia in the Global System: An Introduction
Description: Oxford / Malden [MA], Blackwell Publishers, (1998). orig.boards. 25x17cm, viii,283 pp. Textual maps.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: The Shift to the Modern World: Classical Social Theory; The Shift to the Modern World in Pacific- Asia: Analysing the Process of the Shift to the Modern World in Pacific Asia; From Ancient Empires to 19th- Century Industrial-Capitalism; The Shift to the Modern World: Reactions, Resistance & Empire; After the Pacific War: Decolonization, Nation- Building & the Cold War; The Emergence of Pacific Asia; Changing Relationships in Contemporary Pacific-Asia: The Region & the Global System;Changing Patterns of Relations Between Japan, the USA & China; Contemporary Paciifc Asia in the 1990s; The Development Experience of Pacific Asia: The Particularity of the Historical Development Experience of Pacific Asia; The Pacific Asian Model: Political-Economic & Social- Institutional Processes; Cultural & Political-Cultural Processes; Pacific Asia in the New Global System: Pacific Asia in the 21st Century Global System.

Keywords: Political Economics, East Asia, Pacific, Economic History, Modernization, Social Development, Sociology, Economy,