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This book highlights the significance of North–South connections as a part of transpacific history. The little-known stories it tells of such "vertical" encounters across the Pacific Ocean complicates established historical narratives which focus instead on "horizontal" connections between the United States and Asia.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction, Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi & Shinnosuke Takahashi
1. Meaningful Connections: Reflections on Transpacific Consciousness, Dario Di Rosa
2. Promise and Protection: New Guinea Villagers and the Role of Christianity During the Pacific War, Christine Winter
3. Anthropology and Colonial Administration in Transpacific Perspective: Australian "Government Anthropology" in New Guinea and Japanese "Practical Ethnology" in the South Sea Islands, 1924-41, Danton Leary
4. Australian Military Sexual Adventurism in the New Guinea Campaign, 1942-45, Caroline Norma
5. Japan's Last Colonial Frontier: Settler Migration, Development, and Expansionism in the Brazilian Amazon, Facundo Garasino
6. War Movements of people: War Evacuees and Military Linguists of Japanese Language in Australia During the Pacific War, Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi
7. The Hiroshima Panels and Australia, Alexander Brown
8. The Journey to the Archipelago: Shimao Toshio, Southern Localism, and the Dream of Japanesia, Shinnosu
About the author
Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi is associate professor in the College of Global Liberal Arts at Ritsumeikan University.Shinnosuke Takahashi is lecturer in the Asian Languages and Cultures Program at Victoria University of Wellington.Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi is associate professor in the College of Global Liberal Arts at Ritsumeikan University.Shinnosuke Takahashi is lecturer in the Asian Languages and Cultures Program at Victoria University of Wellington.
Summary
This book highlights the significance of North–South connections as a part of transpacific history. The little-known stories it tells of such “vertical” encounters across the Pacific Ocean complicates established historical narratives which focus instead on “horizontal” connections between the United States and Asia.
