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Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Author's preface -- Prologue: The month before war -- PART 1 THE SECOND MONDAY IN MARCH: ORIGIN THEORIES AND THE TRAIL LEFT BY DISEASE -- Chapter 1 Circling Patient Zero -- Chapter 2 Three Waves of Death -- PART 2 EUROPE, AMERICA AND THE ALLIANCES OF WAR: THE EFFECT OF THE PANDEMIC ON THE COUNTRIES IN CONFLICT -- Chapter 3 'In flew Enza': How the European Allies were affected by flu -- Chapter 4 The Naples Soldier: Flu and class divisions in the neutral territories -- Chapter 5 School's Out in Vienna: The pandemic behind enemy lines -- Chapter 6 The Edge of War: How flu unfolded in the Americas -- Plate section -- PART 3 MOVEMENT, TRADE AND THE VICTIMS OF COLONISATION: EXPOSURE TO THE VIRUS BEYOND EUROPE -- Chapter 7 Under the Desert Sun: Influenza in Africa and the Middle East -- Chapter 8 The Strange One: The epidemic in colonial India -- Chapter 9 Closed For Business: Influenza in the South Pacific -- Chapter 10 Closing the Loop: Outbreak and immunity in South East Asia -- PART 4 SECRETS IN THE SNOW: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED IN 100 YEARS? -- Chapter 11 Peace In the Time of Influenza: The impact of the pandemic on the peace process and medicine from 1919 -- Epilogue Northern Exposure: What the bodies in the snow tell us about the next pandemic -- About the author -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

Pamila Gupta takes a unique approach to examining decolonization processes across Lusophone India and Southern Africa, focusing on Goa, Mozambique, Angola and South Africa, weaving together case studies using five interconnected themes. Gupta considers decolonization as simultaneously a historical event and an ethnographic moment, accessed through written, oral and visual and eyewitness accounts of how people experienced of the transfer of state power. She looks at the materiality of decolonization as a movement of peoples across vast oceanic spaces, demonstrating how it was a process of dispossession for both the Portuguese formerly in power and ordinary colonial citizens and subjects. She then discusses the production of race and class anxieties during decolonization, which took on a variety of forms but were often articulated through material objects. The book aims to move beyond linear histories of colonial independence by connecting its various regions using the theme of decolonization, suggesting a productive way forward to writing post-national narratives. Finally, Gupta demonstrates the value of using different source materials to access narratives of decolonization, analyzing the work of Mozambican photographer Ricardo Rangel as well as lyrical narratives and ethnographical observations. Portuguese Decolonization in the Indian Ocean World provides a nuanced understanding of Lusophone decolonization, revealing the perspectives of people who experienced it

This book predicts possible international changes that may occur between 2013 and 2023. It forecasts that China will become a global superpower no later than 2023, and that a bipolar world will be formed with a strategic rivalry between China and the US. China may also further reduce the disparity in capability with the US, while other major powers will witness an enlarged capability gap with both China and the US. Therefore, this bipolarization will drive the world center to shift from Europe to East Asia. In East Asia, Japan will become a lesser state, North Korea will keep its nuclear arsenal, but stop nuclear tests, and the maritime disputes in South China Sea will no longer the major problem to ASEAN countries by 2023. In Europe, Germany will dominate the EU while it is decentralized, the UK will withdraw from the EU, and Russia will deteriorate dramatically under Putin's rule. Globalization will also worsen polarization at both domestic and international levels, and India will lag behind China even further, the Middle East will suffer from the rivalry among regional powers, and Africa will be further marginalized.

Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: I was a Rabbit Boy -- Chapter 2: Cherry Blossom Land -- Chapter 3: Who's Telling the Truth? -- Chapter 4: Call to Action -- Chapter 5: What is Really Happening? -- Chapter 6: Getting the Children Away -- Chapter 7: Will We Lose Our Country? -- Chapter 8: Keep Calm and Carry On -- Chapter 9: Empty Desks -- Chapter 10: Handkerchiefs and No Pets - The Evacuation of Torres Strait Islands, Northern Territory and Queensland -- Chapter 11: Staying with Friends -- Chapter 12: Mum Slept Through the 'All Clear' -- Chapter 13: Going to Grandmas -- Chapter 14: No More Flowers - Western Australia -- Chapter 15: Tasmanian Fears -- Chapter 16: I Want to Go -- Chapter 17: Changing Lives -- Chapter 18: G'day! Being a Host -- Chapter 19: Victorian Evacuees -- Chapter 20: Aftermath -- Contributors -- About the Author -- Index.