Pacific Worlds
Title | Pacific Worlds PDF eBook |
Author | Matt K. Matsuda |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 453 |
Release | 2012-01-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521887631 |
Essential single-volume history of the Pacific region and the global interactions which define it.
Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World
Title | Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory T. Cushman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2013-03-25 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1107004136 |
This book traces the history of bird guano, demonstrating how this unique commodity helped unite the Pacific Basin with the industrialized world.
Art and War in the Pacific World
Title | Art and War in the Pacific World PDF eBook |
Author | J.M. Mancini |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2018-04-03 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0520294513 |
"Recent years have witnessed a surge in interest the Pacific world as a hub for the global trade in art objects. Yet, the history of art and architecture has seldom reckoned with another profound aspect of the region's history: its exposure to global conflict. Art and War in the Pacific World provides a new view of the Pacific world, and of global artistic interaction, by exploring how the making, alteration, looting, and destruction of images, objects, buildings, and landscapes intersected with the exercise of force during the British and U.S. military incursions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries"--Provided by publisher.
Gendering the Trans-Pacific World
Title | Gendering the Trans-Pacific World PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 454 |
Release | 2017-03-06 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9004336109 |
As the inaugural volume of the new Brill book series Gendering the Trans-Pacific World: Diaspora, Empire, and Race, this anthology presents an emergent interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field that highlights the inextricable link between gender and the trans-Pacific world. The anthology features twenty-one chapters by new and established scholars and writers. They collectively examine the geographies of empire, the significance of intimacy and affect, the importance of beauty and the body, and the circulation of culture. This is an ideal volume to introduce advanced undergraduate and graduate students to Transpacific Studies and gender as a category of analysis. Gendering the Trans-Pacific World: Diaspora, Empire, and Race is now available in paperback for individual customers.
Measurement of Cardiovascular Function
Title | Measurement of Cardiovascular Function PDF eBook |
Author | John H. McNeill |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2019-06-04 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1000013065 |
First Published in 1997, Measurement of Cardiovascular Function answers the crucial need for a straightforward guide for cardiac researchers to develop techniques from scratch in the laboratory. The techniques detailed represent major models and methods used in assessing cardiac function in physiological and pathological conditions. The book presents in-depth descriptions of several sophisticated cardiac preparations and includes chapters on the lipid-perfused heart, metabolic measurements, models of arrhythmia, blood pressure monitoring, and models of hypertension. This book examines the most widely used tools in experimental cardiology and provides you with the recipe-setting up the technique, procurement of equipment, sample data and calculations, problems and trouble shooting, adapting to other species, modifications, and applicability. Undoubtedly, this text will be a great asset to cardiovascular physiologists, pharmacologists, experimental cardiologists, and students of physiology and pharmacology.
The Pacific Century
Title | The Pacific Century PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Gibney |
Publisher | Macmillan Reference USA |
Pages | 632 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
000545853 - 99/615 A Robert Stewart book.
Forced Migration in the Spanish Pacific World
Title | Forced Migration in the Spanish Pacific World PDF eBook |
Author | Eva Maria Mehl |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2016-07-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107136792 |
An exploration of the deportation of Mexican military recruits and vagrants to the Philippines between 1765 and 1811.