The “Missing Link”

Transfers ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Steel
Keyword(s):  
Early History ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
Missing Link ◽  
Natural Domain ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Colony Migration ◽  
Power And Influence

The inauguration of a steamship route between Canada and Australia, described as the “missing link,” was envisaged to complete Britain's imperial circuit of the globe. This article examines the early proposals and projects for a service between Vancouver and Sydney, which finally commenced in 1893. The route was more than a means of physically bridging the gulf between Canada and Australia. Serving as a conduit for ideologies and expectations, it became a key element of aspirations to reconfigure the Pacific as a natural domain for the extension of settler-colonial power and influence. In centering the “white” Pacific and relations between white colonies in empire, the route's early history, although one of friction and contestation, offers new insights into settler-colonial mobilities beyond dominant themes of metropole–colony migration.

scholarly journals Keywords: Militarism

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 47-62
Author(s):  
Emalani Case
Keyword(s):  
White Supremacy ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Racial Hierarchies

Using the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) maritime exercises as an example, this keywords entry explores the concept of militarism and seeks to understand ideologies of justified violence in relation to the structure of settler colonialism and the logics of white supremacy. Using three brief reflections from RIMPAC 2020, I examine how militarism sustains, and is sustained by, racial hierarchies and colonial power. I also draw links to the Covid-19 global crisis and the Black Lives Matter movement, demonstrating how the impacts of militarism, like a disease, extend far beyond what are usually identified as militaries, infecting all aspects of society.

230Th dates for dedicatory corals from a remote alpine desert adze quarry on Mauna Kea, Hawai‘i

Antiquity ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 83 (320) ◽  
pp. 445-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick C. McCoy ◽  
Marshall I. Weisler ◽  
Jian-xin Zhao ◽  
Yue-Xing Feng
Keyword(s):  
High Altitude ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Early History ◽  
Uranium Series ◽  
Error Range ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Millennium

AbstractThe authors show how sites in upland Hawai‘i may be dated using uranium series radiogenic measurements on coral. The sites lie in a quarry, inland and at high altitude, with little carboniferous material around, and radiocarbon dating is anyway problematic here for the first millennium. Freshly broken coral had been transported to these sites, remote from the sea – no doubt for ritual purposes. Giving a date in the fifteenth century with an error range of only five years, the method promises to be valuable for the early history of the Pacific.

Major League Baseball is Just Like Mcdonald's?

2012 ◽  
pp. 226-246
Author(s):  
Rodney Fort
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
American Association ◽  
Major League Baseball ◽  
Early History ◽  
Minor League ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Major League ◽  
History Of

This article explores the history of Major League Baseball (MLB) and the three cases of competition from rival leagues. The early history shows the rough and tumble competition outcomes for the American Association (AA), Union Association (UA), Players League (PL), and Federal League (FL). It also reveals the decidedly different outcome that reduced competition in the case of the African American Leagues (AALs), the Pacific Coast League (PCL), and the Continental League (CL). There is no evidence of concerted collusive effort to end the PCL's chance as a rival major league. The welfare of fans at the major-league level was reduced, on net. It might be argued that minor league-level play was replaced by major league level play and then AAA baseball spread to cities that previously had enjoyed even lower-level classifications.

scholarly journals Dronningens mønt; Om penge, rang og distinktioner

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Liep
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Royal Family ◽  
Missing Link ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
Relevant Theory ◽  
Sacred Objects ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Social

The article introduces the phenomenon of ranked money by a description of the ndap system of shell money on Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea. This money is divided in many classes from rare, named and sacred objects in the upper part of the system down to common low-value pieces towards the bottom. It is shown that high-ranking shells are more like decorations or tokens of authority while low-ranking ones are more similar to our money. Further, payment displays of shell money index the social precedence of participants in transactions. Similar cases of ranked money in the Pacific are presented. Relevant theory by Graeber, Hart, Kopytoff and Annette Weiner is reviewed to elucidate the phenomenon. I then turn to two public Danish value objectifications: state money and the royal system of regalia, orders and medals. I show how in our modern society a split has appeared between money as a commercial medium and royal distinctions as tokens of honour in an alternative hierarchical domain of value. There is, however, a “missing link”: at great occasions in the royal family special large commemorative coins of silver are issued. One of these is placed as a royal gift with each cover at the banquet celebrating the event.

Merchants, migrants, missionaries, and globalization in the early-modern Pacific

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Clossey
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Global Trade ◽  
Trade Network ◽  
Missing Link ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
American Interest ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
China And Japan

In 1571 the founding of Manila made possible regular transpacific trade and thus forged the missing link in the global trade network. American interest in China and Japan soared to new heights. In the next two centuries this attraction fuelled other globalizing exchanges—parallel to the commercial ties—across the Pacific. Thousands crossed the ocean to create the America’s first Asian diaspora communities, and Mexico became Europe’s clearinghouse for information about Asia. The most intense connection was missionary, for churchmen in America worked with one eye relentlessly turned to East Asia and dreamed of the possibility of evangelization, and of its alluring dangers. These exchanges, and the attendant expanding mental horizons, evince enough similarities with modern globalization to warrant incorporation into that concept.

The Philological Association of The Pacific Coast

PMLA ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1373-1374
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
The Pacific

The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast was held at Stanford University, California, on November 29 and 30, 1935.

A scanning electron microscopic study of the veliger larvae of the scallop argopecten purpuratus

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 284-285
Author(s):  
G.C. Bellolio ◽  
K.S. Lohrmann ◽  
E.M. Dupré
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Description ◽  
Electron Microscopic ◽  
Larval Stages ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopic Study ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Argopecten Purpuratus ◽  
Veliger Larvae ◽  
20 Nm ◽  
Ethanol Series ◽  
Scanning Electron

Argopecten purpuratus is a scallop distributed in the Pacific coast of Chile and Peru. Although this species is mass cultured in both countries there is no morphological description available of the development of this bivalve except for few characterizations of some larval stages described for culture purposes. In this work veliger larvae (app. 140 pm length) were examined by the scanning electron microscope (SEM) in order to study some aspects of the organogenesis of this species.Veliger larvae were obtained from hatchery cultures, relaxed with a solution of MgCl2 and killed by slow addition of 21 glutaraldehyde (GA) in seawater (SW). They were fixed in 2% GA in calcium free artificial SW (pH 8.3), rinsed 3 times in calcium free SW, and dehydrated in a graded ethanol series. The larvae were critical point dried and mounted on double scotch tape (DST). To permit internal view, some valves were removed by slightly pressing and lifting the tip of a cactus spine wrapped with DST, The samples were coated with 20 nm gold and examined with a JEOL JSM T-300 operated at 15 KV.

Some early history of replica techniques for electron microscopy

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 1076-1077
Author(s):  
Robert M. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Optical Microscope ◽  
Early History ◽  
Bulk Materials ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Reflected Light ◽  
History Of ◽  
Electron Microscopes

By 1940, a half dozen or so commercial or home-built transmission electron microscopes were in use for studies of the ultrastructure of matter. These operated at 30-60 kV and most pioneering microscopists were preoccupied with their search for electron transparent substrates to support dispersions of particulates or bacteria for TEM examination and did not contemplate studies of bulk materials. Metallurgist H. Mahl and other physical scientists, accustomed to examining etched, deformed or machined specimens by reflected light in the optical microscope, were also highly motivated to capitalize on the superior resolution of the electron microscope. Mahl originated several methods of preparing thin oxide or lacquer impressions of surfaces that were transparent in his 50 kV TEM. The utility of replication was recognized immediately and many variations on the theme, including two-step negative-positive replicas, soon appeared. Intense development of replica techniques slowed after 1955 but important advances still occur. The availability of 100 kV instruments, advent of thin film methods for metals and ceramics and microtoming of thin sections for biological specimens largely eliminated any need to resort to replicas.

The early history of tuberous sclerosis

1979 ◽  
Vol 115 (11) ◽  
pp. 1317-1319 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Tuberous Sclerosis ◽  
Early History ◽  
History Of
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