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

Foreword
Chapter one
STEAM AND CANALS
Chapter two
RIVALRIES IN THE PACIFIC
Chapter three
PLANTERS, TRADERS AND SLAVERS IN THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC
Chapter four
FIJI: THE START OF ANGLO-GERMAN RIVALRY IN THE PACIFIC
Chapter five
THE SAMOA CONFLICT
Chapter six
GERMANY ENTERS THE COLONIAL RACE
Chapter seven
THE NEW GUINEA PROTECTORATES
Chapter eight
GREAT BRITAIN, RUSSIA AND THE CENTRAL ASIAN QUESTION
Chapter nine
SAMOAN REMAINS A SOURCE OF INTERNATIONAL TENSION
Chapter ten
THE EMERGING ECONOMIC WORLD POWERS
Chapter eleven
GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
Chapter twelve
THE FRENCH EXPANSION WESTWARDS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
Chapter thirteen
RUSSIA, JAPAN AND THE CHINESE EMPIRE
Chapter fourteen
THAILAND AND BEYOND
Chapter fifteen
THE SCRAMBLE FOR CHINA: JIOAZHOU AND PORT ARTHUR
Chapter sixteen
THE BRITISH REACTION: WEI-HAI-WEI
Chapter seventeen
THE SCRAMBLE FOR CHINA CONTINUES: GUANGZHOUWAN AND TIBET
Chapter eighteen
THE FAILED ANNEXATION OF HAWAII
Chapter nineteen
THE UNITED STATES BECOMES A COLONIAL EMPIRE
Chapter twenty
THE PARTITION OF SAMOA
Chapter twenty-one
THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR
Chapter twenty-two
GREAT BRITAIN'S SEARCH FOR SECURE COLONIAL FRONTIERS
Chapter twenty-three
THE UNITED STATES, JAPAN AND THE PACIFIC OCEAN
Chapter twenty-four
EPILOGUE