Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-mwx4w Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-22T02:53:26.147Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

57 - Shrinking the Pacific since 1945

Containerships, Jets, and Internet

from Part XI - The Pacific Century?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2022

Anne Perez Hattori
Affiliation:
University of Guam
Jane Samson
Affiliation:
University of Alberta
Get access

Summary

Over recent decades the global economy has tilted from a trans-Atlantic Euro-American economy towards an Asia-Pacific one, a shift encapsulated by the term Pacific Century. Nine Group of Twenty (G20) nations – Australia, Canada China, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Korea, and the USA – are contiguous with the Pacific Rim. Yet despite common use of the adjectives Pacific, trans-Pacific, and Asia-Pacific, the boundaries and structure of this notional economy are still vague. This chapter maps the articulation of a Pacific economy since 1945 through geologistics as a two-stage process, first reformation and densification of pre-war networks until the end of the 1960s, then transformation through the new technologies of container shipping, jet aircraft, and the Internet. It becomes apparent that this transformation had had much greater impact upon adjacent continental economies than upon the vast coastal and almost hollow archipelagic region that may be denoted as Pacifica.

Type
Chapter
Information
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×