Studies in Pacific History

Dennis O. Flynn, Arturo Giráldez, James Sobredo

Contents: In search of periodization for Pacific History: an introduction, Dennis O. Flynn, Arturo Giráldez, and James Sobredo; Soft gold: animal skins and the early economy of California, Jim Hardee; San Francisco’s Pacific exports, 1850-1898, David J. St. Clair; Powerhouse economies of the Pacific: a comparative study of gold and wheat in 19th-century Victoria and California, Warwick Frost; New Zealand and the gold rushes of the mid-19th century, Kenneth E. Jackson; Gold Rush California bound: new evidence from French passenger lists, Annick Foucrier; The rim of fire: Pacific Rim cities and the problem of fires, Lionel Frost; World War I, the American Interior, and Pacific markets: a look at distant impacts, Nancy J. Taniguchi; Race and the right kind of island: immigration policy in Hawaii and Cuba under US auspices, 1899-1912, Katharine Bjork; The 1934 Tydings-McDuffie Act and Filipino exclusion: social, political and economic context revisited, James Sobredo; Communists, Christians, and Japanese Imperial subjects: Okinawan immigrants within the Japanese diaspora, 1899-1941, Edith M. Kaneshiro; Hong Kong: constitutional development and corporate culture, Frank H. H. King; The Philippine annexation: an experiment of profound interest, Arthur Power Dudden; Cold War casualties: the impact of American nuclear testing policies in the Pacific, 1954, Martha Smith-Norris; Index.