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Autore |
Figal Gerald A. <1962-> |
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Titolo |
Beachheads [[electronic resource] ] : war, peace, and tourism in postwar Okinawa / / Gerald Figal |
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Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-67993-X |
9786613656865 |
1-4422-1583-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (277 p.) |
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Collana |
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Asia/Pacific/perspectives |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Tourism - Japan - Okinawa Island - History - 20th century |
Tourism - Government policy - Japan - History - 20th century |
Reconstruction (1939-1951) - Japan - Okinawa Island |
Okinawa Island (Japan) History 20th century |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. 1. Grave and caves -- pt. 2. Creations and recreations -- pt. 3. Bases and beaches. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This original and fresh book explores Okinawa's makeover as a tourist mecca in the long historical shadow and among the physical ruins of the Pacific War's most devastating land battle. Gerald Figal considers how a place burdened by a history of semicolonialism, memories of war and occupation, economic hardship, and contentious current political affairs has reshaped itself into a resort destination. He traces cultural, political, social, and economic issues of Okinawa's postwar experience to the present through the innovative frame of tourism development-both as it has been i |
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