Autore	Friedman Hal M. <1965->
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2000
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (253 p.)
Disciplina	327.730965
Collana	Contributions in military studies
Soggetto topico	National security - United States Imperialism - History - 20th century Cold War
ISBN	979-84-00-63319-5 0-313-00171-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover -- Creating an American Lake -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- RESEARCH PATTERNS AND CONCEPTS -- SYNOPSIS -- Chapter 1 Modified Mahanism: Pearl Harbor, the Pacific War, and the Mobile Defense of the Postwar Basin -- THE PREWAR AND WARTIME CONTEXTS -- MAHANIAN OFFENSIVE-DEFENSIVE WARFARE AND THE USE OF MOBILE MILITARY FORCE IN THE POSTWAR PACIFIC -- STRATEGIC PHYSICAL COMPLEXES, STRATEGIC DENIAL, AND THE DEFENSE OF THE POSTWAR PACIFIC -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 2 A Security Blanket for Paradise: The American Lake Effect and US Pacific Basin Security Policy in the 1940s -- BLANKETING THE PACIFIC -- THE AMBIVALENCE OF PRIORITIZATION -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 3 The Bear in the Pacific? US Intelligence Perceptions of Soviet Power Projection in the Pacific Basin -- THE CONTEXT -- THE ''BEAR'' IN PARADISE? -- AN ASSESSMENT -- Chapter 4 The Limitations of Collective Security: The United States, the Great Powers, and the Pacific Basin -- INTER-ALLIED DISPUTES -- THE UN AND POSTWAR AMERICAN SECURITY IN THE PACIFIC -- STATES DIRECTLY CONCERNED -- THE PACIFIC ISLANDS AND SOVIET-AMERICAN RELATIONS -- TERRITORIAL AGGRANDIZEMENT -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 5 Chosen Instruments and Open Doors in the Pacific: US Strategic Security and Economic Policy in the Pacific Islands -- AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM AND THE POSTWAR PACIFIC -- ECONOMIC SECURITY AND THE POSTWAR PACIFIC -- SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND CHOSEN INSTRUMENTS IN THE POSTWAR PACIFIC -- THE OPEN DOOR IN THE PACIFIC? -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 6 ''Races Undesirable from a Military Point of View'': US Cultural Security and the Pacific Islands -- CULTURAL SECURITY IN THE POSTWAR PACIFIC -- MEXICANS, FILIPINOS, AND AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN THE POSTWAR PACIFIC BASIN -- CONCLUSION. Chapter 7 ''As a Forward Bulwark of the American Way of Life'': Americanization as a Strategic Security Measure -- CONCLUSION -- Conclusion Out with the Old, in with the New? Continuities and Changes in American Pacific Policy -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- PRIMARY SOURCES -- Manuscripts and Archival Records -- Microfilm Collections -- US Government Publications -- Telephone Inquiries -- Contemporary Publications -- SECONDARY SOURCES -- TERTIARY SOURCES -- Index -- About the Author.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910819208103321

Autore	Pletcher David M
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Columbia, Mo., : University of Missouri Press, c2001
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (393 p.)
Disciplina	337.7309
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8262-6353-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910449902103321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (404 p.)
Disciplina	355/.03305
Altri autori (Persone)	ShigematsuSetsu CamachoKeith L
Soggetto topico	Militarism - Pacific Area - History - 20th century Militarism - Social aspects - Pacific Area Imperialism - History - 20th century
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4529-4632-9 0-8166-7351-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Foreword / Cynthia Enloe -- Introduction: Militarized Currents, Decolonizing Futures / Setsu Shigematsu and Keith L. Camacho -- Militarized Bodies of Memory -- Memorializing Puʻuloa and Remembering Pearl Harbor / Jon Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio -- Bikinis and Other S/pacific N/oceans / Teresia K. Teaiwa -- The Exceptional Life and Death of a Chamorro Soldier: Tracing the Militarization of Desire in Guam, [overstrike] USA / Michael Lujan Bevacqua -- Touring Military Masculinities: U.S.-Philippines Circuits of Sacrifice and Gratitude in Corregidor and Bataan / Vemadetle Vicuna Gonzalez -- II. Militarized Movements -- Rising Up from a Sea of Discontent: The 1970 Koza Uprising in U.S.-Occupied Okinawa / Wesley Iwao Ueunten -- South Korean Movements against Militarized Sexual Labor / Katharine H. S. Moon -- Uncomfortable Fatigues: Chamorro Soldiers, Gendered Identities, and the Question of Decolonization in Guam / Keith L. Camacho and Laurel A. Monnig -- Militarized Filipino Masculinity and the Language of Citizenship in San Diego / Theresa Cenidoza Suarez -- Hetero/Homo-sexualized Militaries -- On Romantic Love and Military Violence: Transpacific Imperialism and US.-Japan Complicity / Naoki Sakai -- Masculinity and Male-on-Male Sexual Violence in the Military: Focusing on the Absence of the Issue / Insook Kwon -- Why have the Japanese Self-Defense Forces Included Women? The State's "Nonfeminist Reasons" / Fumika Sato -- Genealogies of Unbelonging: Amerasians and Transnational Adoptees as Legacies of US. Militarism in South Korea / Patti Duncan -- Conclusion: From American Lake to a People's Pacific in the Twenty-First Century / Walden Bello.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910459219703321

Autore	Nimmo William F
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2001
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (296 p.)
Disciplina	327.7305
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-313-00394-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910454888503321

Autore	Nimmo William F
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2001
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (296 p.)
Disciplina	327.7305
ISBN	979-82-16-01835-3 0-313-00394-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover -- Stars and Stripes Across the Pacific -- Contents -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1 The Beginnings: New Experiences for Americans in Asia and the Pacific -- CHAPTER 2 Expansion in Asia and the Pacific -- THE SINO-JAPANESE WAR, 1894-1895 -- JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES BECOME POWERS IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC -- THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR AND THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS -- THE PHILIPPINE WAR -- JOHN HAY AND THE OPEN DOOR -- THE BOXER REBELLION -- CHAPTER 3 New Century and Rising New Powers -- JAPAN TEAMS UP WITH BRITAIN: ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE OF 1902 -- THE UNITED STATES AND POTENTIAL ENEMIES IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC -- THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR, 1904-1905 -- STIRRINGS OF NATIONALISM IN CHINA AND EFFECT ON THE UNITED STATES -- FROM THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR TO WORLD WAR I -- CHAPTER 4 World War I: Big Rewards for Japan with Little Pain -- JAPAN AGAINST GERMANY: SHANTUNG PENINSULA AND PACIFIC ISLANDS -- TWENTY-ONE DEMANDS AND AMERICAN OBJECTIONS -- LEGISLATION PASSED FOR EVENTUAL INDEPENDENCE OF THE PHILIPPINES -- LANSING-ISHII AGREEMENT -- THE SIBERIAN INTERVENTION -- PROTESTS IN KOREA AND CHINA AGAINST JAPAN -- CHAPTER 5 The 1920s: A Move to Liberalism in Japan and Turmoil in China -- THE SIBERIAN INTERVENTION: JAPAN PULLS OUT UNDER PRESSURE -- THE WASHINGTON NAVAL CONFERENCE, 1921-1922 -- A LIBERALIZING TREND IN JAPAN: TAISHO DEMOCRACY -- THE GREAT KANTO EARTHQUAKE OF 1923 -- THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA AFTER THE WASHINGTON NAVAL CONFERENCE -- OPPOSITION TO JAPANESE IMMIGRATION IN THE UNITED STATES -- CHAPTER 6 The Japanese Army Moves in on Civilian Government -- ARRANGEMENT IN CHINA: RENEWAL OF EXPANSIONIST ADVENTURES -- KELLOGG-BRIAND PACT: THERE WILL BE NO MORE WAR -- THE LONDON NAVAL CONFERENCE: JAPAN'S NAVY REBELS AGAINST LIMITS -- WORLDWIDE ECONOMIC DEPRESSION. CHAPTER 7 The Early 1930s: Japan Expands While the United States Withdraws from Colonial Ambitions -- DECEPTION AT MUKDEN: THE JAPANESE ARMY OCCUPIES MANCHURIA -- BIRTH OF A PUPPET STATE IN DEFIANCE OF WORLD OPINION -- ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE COMMONWEALTH -- CHAPTER 8 Japan's Attempt to Conquer China -- THE MARCO POLO BRIDGE: ANOTHER PRETEXT FOR INVASION -- WAR IN EAST CHINA: JAPAN "FORCED" TO LAUNCH A PUNITIVE ACTION -- THE PANAY INCIDENT: A U.S. NAVY VESSEL DESTROYED -- THE MASSACRE IN NANKING: JAPANESE TROOPS RUN AMOK -- STALEMATE IN CHINA: THE WAR BOGS DOWN AMID A DIVIDED CHINA -- CHAPTER 9 Confrontation between the United States and Japan -- THE UNITED STATES TAKES A STERN POSITION WITH JAPAN -- THE UNITED STATES IMPOSES TRADE RESTRICTIONS ON JAPAN -- NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES IN 1941 -- THE ATLANTIC CONFERENCE -- THE FINAL NEGOTIATIONS -- CHAPTER 10 The Military Dictatorship Takes Japan to War -- JAPAN STRIKES: PEARL HARBOR AND SOUTHEAST ASIA, DECEMBER 1941 -- EASY VICTORIES FOR THE RISING SUN: DECEMBER 1941 TO MAY 1942 -- THE TIDE TURNS: CORAL SEA AND MIDWAY, MAY AND JUNE 1942 -- PUSHING BACK THE EMPIRE: MACARTHUR AND NIMITZ, 1942-1944 -- JAPAN DIGS IN: SAIPAN, THE BATTLE OF THE PHILIPPINE SEA, AND THE PHILIPPINES -- MACARTHUR'S RETURN TO THE PHILIPPINES -- TOKYO'S PROPAGANDA ATTEMPTS TO MAINTAIN MORALE ON THE HOMEFRONT -- THE WAR IN CHINA AND BURMA -- THE LAST STAGES: JANUARY TO JUNE, 1945-LUZON, IWO JIMA, AND OKINAWA -- CHAPTER 11 Ending the War -- JAPAN SEEKS KREMLIN HELP -- GETS THE POTSDAM DECLARATION INSTEAD -- MAJOR BLOWS TO JAPAN: HIROSHIMA AND THE SOVIET ENTRY INTO THE WAR -- ATOMIC BOMBS AND THE SOVIET ATTACK LEAD THE EMPEROR TO ACT -- STALIN'S ATTEMPT TO INVADE JAPAN BEFORE THE OCCUPATION BEGINS -- AFTERMATH OF WAR -- Appendix: Romanization of Chinese Names -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. About the Author.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910828018003321