The Twentieth Century outside Europe. The Americas, the Pacific, Asia and Africa: The Emerging World Christian Community. Kenneth Scott Latourette

Structural upgrading and industrial dynamismin Pacific Asia—initially Japan, then the Asian NIEs (Newly Industrializing Economies: South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore) following closely behind, and most recently, ASEAN 4 (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines)—have been unprecedentedly phenomenal. This regional supergrowth in industrial activities has become the center of attention, but the evolving changes in the political systems and societal structures of the Pacific Asian nations have been, no doubt, equally important, although rather subtle and not so dramatic in appearance.

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Isotopic evidence for twentieth-century weakening of the Pacific Walker circulation

Earth and Planetary Science Letters ◽

10.1016/j.epsl.2018.12.002 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 507 ◽

pp. 85-93

Author(s):

Zhongfang Liu ◽

Zhimin Jian ◽

Christopher J. Poulsen ◽

Liang Zhao

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Walker Circulation ◽

Isotopic Evidence ◽

The Pacific

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Unexpected Subversions: Modern Colonialism, Globalization, and Commodity Culture

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199561216.013.0024 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Timothy Burke

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Early Modern ◽

Large Class ◽

Consumer Culture ◽

Global Culture ◽

Middle Classes ◽

Commodity Culture ◽

Consumer Agency ◽

The Pacific ◽

History Of

Scholars studying the history of modern colonialism have been more reluctant to make strongly contrarian claims about consumerism and commodification similar to those made by early modern Europeanists because they are more unsettled by some of the implications of their own studies. Modern consumer culture is strongly mapped to ‘Westernization’ and globalization. There is a very large class of scholarly studies that in some respect or another discuss the association between colonialism and consumption in nineteenth- and twentieth-century global culture. Even constrained to the Western European states that created or extended formal empires in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific after 1860, studies such as Anne McClintock's intricate reading of British commodity culture indicate the extent to which colonial meanings and images were circulating within metropolitan societies. This article discusses modern colonialism, globalization, and commodity culture. It first examines the middle classes, nations, and modernity, and then considers consumer agency in the context of globalization.

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Introduction

The Sexual Economy of War ◽

10.7591/cornell/9781501736445.003.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-20

Author(s):

Andrew Byers

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Research Methodology ◽

Legal Regulations ◽

Medical Interventions ◽

War Department ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

The Pacific ◽

The Caribbean ◽

The Military ◽

The U.S

This chapter provides an overview of why the U.S. Army sought to address perceived problems caused by soldiers’ sexual interactions with civilians and other soldiers as the army deployed across the Caribbean and into the Pacific and Europe in the early twentieth century. Military planners, army leaders, War Department officials, and civilian observers of the military were intensely concerned about issues related to sexuality because they tended to believe that soldiers had irrepressible sexual needs that could cause harm to the army. The army also believed that by instituting a series of legal regulations and medical interventions, it could mitigate the damages to the institution arising from sex, while also shaping soldiers’ sexuality in ways the army and interested civilian parties might find more acceptable. The chapter describes the research methodology and chapter overviews for the book as a whole.

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