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Colonial project, national game [[electronic resource] ] : a history of baseball in Taiwan / / Andrew D. Morris
| Colonial project, national game [[electronic resource] ] : a history of baseball in Taiwan / / Andrew D. Morris |
| Autore | Morris Andrew D |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (301 p.) |
| Disciplina | 796.357095124/9 |
| Collana | Asia Pacific modern |
| Soggetto topico |
Baseball - Taiwan - History
Baseball players - Taiwan - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
asia
austronesian aborigines baseball history baseball chinese nationalist party colonial era colonialism competition cultural history cultural impact east asia easy to read engaging ethnic history government and governing han chinese historical japanese colonialism japanese culture modern history modern taiwan national game pacific political history post war taiwan social history sports history sports taiwan taiwanese politics team sports world war ii |
| ISBN |
1-282-79023-4
9786612790232 0-520-94760-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Map of Taiwan -- Introduction -- 1. Baseball in Japanese Taiwan, 1895-1920s -- 2. Making racial Harmony in Taiwan Baseball, 1931-1945 -- 3. Early Nationalist rule, 1945-1967: "There's no Mandarin in baseball" -- 4. Team of Taiwan, long live the republic of China: Youth Baseball in Taiwan, 1968-1969 -- 5. "Chinese" Baseball and its discontents, 1970s-1980s -- 6. Homu-Ran Batta: Professional Baseball in Taiwan, 1990-Present -- Conclusion: Baseball's Second Century in Taiwan -- Appendix: Taiwanese Professional Baseball Teams and National Origin of Foreign Players -- Notes -- Glossary of Chinese, Japanese, and Taiwanese Terms and Names -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785220503321 |
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Insatiable appetite [[electronic resource] ] : the United States and the ecological degradation of the tropical world / / Richard P. Tucker
| Insatiable appetite [[electronic resource] ] : the United States and the ecological degradation of the tropical world / / Richard P. Tucker |
| Autore | Tucker Richard P. <1938-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (567 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.7/0913 |
| Soggetto topico |
Tropical crops - Economic aspects - History - 20th century
Tropical crops - Environmental aspects - History - 20th century Investments, American - Tropics - History - 20th century Environmental degradation - Tropics - History - 20th century |
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agriculture
american history bananas beef biodiversity caribbean central america civilization coffee commerce commodities conservation cultivation ecology environment environmental history environmental impact environmentalism forest free trade land speculation latin american history monocrops nonfiction pacific plantations rubber south america southeast asia sugar timber trade transnational history tropical crops tropical lands tropical ports tropics west africa white mans burden |
| ISBN |
0-520-92381-2
1-282-35645-3 9786612356452 1-59734-678-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. America's Sweet Tooth: The Sugar Trust And The Caribbean Lowlands -- 2. Lords Of The Pacific: Sugar Barons In The Hawaiian And Philippine Islands -- 3. Banana Republics: Yankee Fruit Companies And The Tropical American Lowlands -- 4. The Last Drop: The American Coffee Market And The Hill Regions Of Latin America -- 5. The Tropical Cost Of The Automotive Age: Corporate Rubber Empires And The Rainforest -- 6. The Crop On Hooves: Yankee Interests In Tropical Cattle Ranching -- 7. Unsustainable Yield: American Foresters And Tropical Timber Resources -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780080603321 |
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Tucker Richard P. <1938->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2000 | ||
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Ma'afu, prince of Tonga, chief of Fiji : the life and times of Fiji's first Tui Lau / / John Spurway
| Ma'afu, prince of Tonga, chief of Fiji : the life and times of Fiji's first Tui Lau / / John Spurway |
| Autore | Spurway John |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | ANU Press, 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxxix, 693 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits; digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 996.11 |
| Collana |
Open Access e-Books
Knowledge Unlatched |
| Soggetto topico | Australasian & Pacific history |
| Soggetto non controllato |
history
politics pacific fiji Demographics of Tonga Fijians Lakeba Levuka Lomaloma Seru Epenisa Cakobau Tonga Tongan language Tui Cakau |
| ISBN | 1-925021-18-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | List of Figures -- List of Maps -- Epigraphs -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- A Note on Spelling -- Maps -- 1. Ma`afu`otu`itonga --12. ‘Ma`afu…had sailed for Feejee…’ -- ‘A fast ignorant vain young man’ -- ‘…the reformation is exploded’ -- ‘We are Kai Tonga’ -- ‘I shall be chief at Bau…’ -- ‘Tonga is too small for him…’ -- ‘A man of great energy and ambition’ -- ‘He looks every inch a chief’ -- ‘There is no doubt Ma`afu means mischief now’ -- ‘Ma`afu’s word is in the hills…’ -- ‘Sa oti, Ma`afu’ -- ‘He is regarded with much bitterness and ill-will’ -- ‘He was a very dangerous man’ -- Appendix A: Instrument signed by Ma`afu at Levuka,14 December 1859 -- Appendix B: Précis of an agreement signed between GeorgeTupou I, King of Tonga, and William Pritchard, HBMConsul to Fiji and Tonga, Nuku`alofa, 5 May 1862 -- Appendix C: Constitution of the Tovata Ko Natokalau Kei Viti,13 February 1867 -- Appendix D: Resolutions relating to Fiji passed by the Tongan general Parliament, June 1868 -- Appendix E: Law relating to Governors [Tonga 1868] -- Appendix F: Statement by George Tupou I, King of Tonga,Nuku`alofa, 3 February 1869 -- Appendix G: Formation of the Chiefdom of Lau, Lakemba,15 February 1869 -- Appendix H: Constitution of Tonga 1875: Paragraph 35 -- Appendix I: Some Tongan descendants of Ma`afu and Elenoa Ngataialupe -- Appendix J: Some Fijian descendants of Ma`afu and ElenoaGataialupe -- Appendix K: Ko E Pulupaki -- Glossary -- Bibliography . . -- Figures -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910131514003321 |
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Spurway John
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| ANU Press, 2015 | ||
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The moral economy of mobile phones : Pacific Islands perspectives / / edited by Robert J. Foster and Heather A. Horst
| The moral economy of mobile phones : Pacific Islands perspectives / / edited by Robert J. Foster and Heather A. Horst |
| Autore | Foster Robert John <1957-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | ANU Press, 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (162 pages) |
| Disciplina | 384.099 |
| Collana | Pacific Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Telecommunication - Pacific Area
Information technology - Pacific Area Consumption (Economics) - Pacific Area |
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mobile phones
pacific digital technology anthropology Digicel Fiji Papua New Guinea Vodafone |
| ISBN | 1-76046-209-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | A Handset Dangling in a Doorway: Mobile Phone Sharing in a Rural Sepik Village (Papua New Guinea) / David Lipset -- HIV, Phone Friends and Affective Technology in Papua New Guinea / Holly Wardlow -- Toby and 'the Mobile System': Apocalypse and Salvation in Papua New Guinea's Wireless Network / Dan Jorgensen -- Creating Consumer-Citizens: Competition, Tradition and the Moral Order of the Mobile Telecommunications Industry in Fiji / Heather A. Horst -- 'Working the Mobile': Giving and Spending Phone Credit in Port Vila, Vanuatu / Daniela Kraemer -- Top-Up: The Moral Economy of Prepaid Mobile Phone Subscriptions / Robert J. Foster -- Discussion. Affective Technologies in the Age of Creative Destruction / Jeffrey Mantz -- Transforming Place, Time and Person?: Mobile Telephones and Changing Moral Economies in the Western Pacific / Margaret Jolly. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910275024003321 |
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Foster Robert John <1957->
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| ANU Press, 2018 | ||
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Name, shame and blame : criminalising consensual sex in Papau New Guinea / / Christine Stewart
| Name, shame and blame : criminalising consensual sex in Papau New Guinea / / Christine Stewart |
| Autore | Stewart Christine, legal officer |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | ANU Press, 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxv, 368 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 176 |
| Soggetto topico |
Sexual consent - Social aspects - Papua New Guinea
Prostitution - Social aspects - Papua New Guinea Prostitution - Law and legislation Homosexuality - Law and legislation - Papua New Guinea Homosexuality - Social aspects - Papua New Guinea |
| Soggetto non controllato |
papua new guinea
pacific hiv sex criminalisation Homosexuality Port Moresby Prostitution |
| ISBN |
9781925021226
9781925021219 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Prologue. The Perfect Storm -- 1. Through the Window -- 2. From the Bush -- 3. In the Courtroom -- 4. On the Streets -- 5. In Trouble -- 6. At the Intersection -- 7. Where to Now? -- Appendix 1. Respondents -- Appendix 2. Sample Antecedent Report -- Appendix 3. Review of Homosexuality Cases -- Appendix 4. Summary of Sentences. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910132418903321 |
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Stewart Christine, legal officer
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| ANU Press, 2014 | ||
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Taxonomy and distribution of the calanoid copepod family Heterorhabdidae [[electronic resource] /] / Taisoo Park
| Taxonomy and distribution of the calanoid copepod family Heterorhabdidae [[electronic resource] /] / Taisoo Park |
| Autore | Park Taisoo |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (284 p.) |
| Disciplina | 595.3/4 |
| Collana | Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego |
| Soggetto topico | Heterorhabdidae |
| Soggetto non controllato |
animals
biology calanoid classification conservation copepod earth sciences environment genus habitat heterorhabditidae invertebrates life sciences marine animals marine biology nature ocean animals ocean oceanography pacific phylogenus plant sciences science sea somites species spine taxonomy water zoology |
| ISBN |
1-282-35624-0
9786612356247 0-520-91602-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ABSTRACT -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- MATERIALS AND METHODS -- FAMILY HETERORHABDIDAE SARS 1902 -- GENUS DISSETA GIESBRECHT 1889 -- GENUS MESORHABDUS SARS 1905 -- GENUS HETEROSTYLITIES SARS 1920 -- GENUS HEMIRHABDUS WOLFENDEN 1911 -- GENUS NEORHABDUS HEPTNER 1972 -- GENUS PARAHETERORHABDUS BRODSKY 1950 -- GENUS HETERORHABDUS GIESBRECHT 1898 -- PHYLOGENY -- DISTRIBUTION -- LITERATURE CITED -- FIGURES |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778077103321 |
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Park Taisoo
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2000 | ||
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