Beachheads : war, peace, and tourism in postwar Okinawa / Gerald Figal.
نوع المادة : نصالسلاسل:Asia/Pacific/perspectivesالناشر:Lanham, Md. : Rowman and Littlefield, [2012]تاريخ حقوق النشر: ©2012وصف:xv, 259 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 144221581X
- 9781442215818
- G155.J27 F55 2012
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | G155.J27 F55 2012 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010011136497 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | G155.J27 F55 2012 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010011136496 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This original and fresh book explores Okinawa's makeover as a tourist mecca in the long historical shadow and among the physical ruins of the Pacific War's most devastating land battle. Gerald Figal considers how a place burdened by a history of semicolonialism, memories of war and occupation, economic hardship, and contentious current political affairs has reshaped itself into a resort destination. He traces cultural, political, social, and economic issues of Okinawa's postwar experience to the present through the innovative frame of tourism development-both as it has been i.
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