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Preston: Pacific Asia


en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iul 1998
This introduction will serve as a 'first stop' for those interested in Japan, its role in the Pacific Asian region and, in turn, that region's role in the evolving global system. In this volume, P. W. Preston critically analyses the political economy, social institutions and culture of Pacific Asia. The analysis focuses on Japan , it's relations with the inner periphery of Southeast Asia, and its developing linkages with the reforming socialist countries of China and Indo-China
The critical perspective, awareness of cultural and ethnic trends and a sophisticated grasp of social patterns makes this volume an essential introduction to the region.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780631202387
ISBN-10: 0631202382
Pagini: 292
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

second year undergraduates and above studying international politics, comparative politics, Asian studies, economics and development where the focus is on Asia–Pacific as a contrasting model to European–American development

Notă biografică

P.W. Preston is Reader in Political Sociology in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham.

Cuprins

Contents. Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Part I: The Theme of the Shift to the Modern World: .
1. Classical Social Theory.
Part II: The Phases of the Shift to the Modern World in Pacific Asia:.
2. Analyzing the Process of the Shift to the Modern World in Pacific Asia.
3. From Ancient Empires to Nineteenth-century Industrial-capitalism.
4. The Shist to the Modern World: Reactions, Resistance and Empire.
5. After the Pacific War: Decolonization, Nation-building and the Cold War.
6. The Emergence of Pacific Asia.
Part III: Changing Relationships in Contemporary Pacific Asia:.
7. The Region and the Global System.
8. Changing Patterns of Relations between Japan, the USA and China.
9. Contemporary Pacific Asia in the 1990's.
Part IV: Debates, Disputes and Lessons in Respect of the Development Experience of Pacific Asia:.
10. The Particularity of the Historical Development Experience of Pacific Asia.
11. The Pacific Asian Model I: Political-economic and Social-institutional Processes.
12.The Pacific Asian ModelII: Cultural and Political-cultural Processes.
Part V: Pacific Asia in the New Global System:.
13. Pacific Asia in the Twenty-first Century Global System.
Bibliography.
Index.

Descriere

This introduction will serve as a a first stopa for those interested in Japan, its role in the Pacific Asian region and, in turn, that regiona s role in the evolving global system. In this volume, P.W. Preston critically analyses the political economy, social institutions and culture of Pacific Asia.