Pacific strife : the great powers and their political and economic rivalries in Asia and the Western Pacific 1870-1914 /

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, colonial powers clashed over much of Central and East Asia: Great Britain and Germany fought over New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, Fiji, and Samoa; France and Great Britain competed over control of continental Southwest Asia; and the United States annexed the...

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