The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
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USDVolume I of The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean provides a wide-ranging survey of Pacific history to 1800. It focuses on varied concepts of the Pacific environment and its impact on human history, as well as tracing the early exploration and colonization of the Pacific, the evolution of Indigenous maritime cultures after colonization, and the disruptive arrival of Europeans.
Bringing together a diversity of subjects and viewpoints, this volume introduces a broad variety of topics, engaging fully with emerging environmental and political conflicts over Pacific Ocean spaces. These essays emphasize the impact of the deep history of interactions on and across the Pacific to the present day.
- Introduces readers to an oceanic approach to history through the example of the Pacific
- Includes holistic, multi-disciplinary perspectives on Pacific history including Indigenous perspectives and voices
- Highlights colonialism as a recent phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean
Product details
February 2023Hardback
9781108423939
800 pages
235 × 160 × 43 mm
1.49kg
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Table of Contents
- General Editor's Introduction Paul D'Arcy
- Preface to Volume I Matt Matsuda and Ryan Tucker Jones
- Part I. Rethinking the Pacific:
- 1. Te Moana nui a Kiwa: The original ocean Witi Ihimaera
- 2. The Pacific region in deep time David Christian
- 3. The history of humans and whales in the Pacific: Leviathan's families Ryan Tucker Jones
- 4. Weaving women's stories: Restoring women and indigenous perspectives into chuukese history Myjolynne Kim
- 5. The Pacific world: Doing history from lagoons to the deep Judith A. Bennett
- Part II. Humans and the Natural World in the Pacific Ocean:
- 6. Indigenous knowledge/science of climate and the natural world Chels Alby Marshall
- 7. Atolls, experiments, and the origin of islands: Science as a way of knowing the Pacific since 1766 Alistair Sponsel
- 8. The birth and development of Pacific islands to 1800 CE Chris Lobban and Maria Schefter
- 9. Natural hazards, risks, and peoples in the Pacific world Paul D'Arcy and Cynthia Neri Zayas
- Part III. Deep Time: Sources for the Ancient History of the Pacific:
- 10. Biological anthropology and genetics in Pacific history Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith
- 11. The word as artefact: What linguistics can and cannot tell us about the prehistory of the Pacific Paul Geraghty
- 12. Oral traditions in Pacific history Morgan Tuimaleali'ifano and Paul D'Arcy
- 13. The evolution of Pacific island societies Gregory Waula Bablis
- 14. Ancient voyaging capacity in the Pacific: Lessons for the future Peter Nuttall, Simon Penny, Marianne 'Mimi' George, and Sylvia C. Frain
- 15. Revitalizing 'traditional' navigation systems in the contemporary Pacific Larry Raigetal
- Part IV. The Initial Colonization of the Pacific:
- 16. Pleistocene voyaging and maritime dispersals in the Pacific Jon M. Erlandson
- 17. Early Maritime Navigation and Cultures in Coastal Southern China, Taiwan, and Island Southeast Asia, 6000 to 500 BCE Hsiao-chun Hung
- 18. New guinea's past: The last 50,000 years Glenn R. Summerhayes
- 19. Austronesian colonization of the Pacific islands, 1000 BCE–1250 CE Stuart Bedford
- 20. Seafaring and colonization in the Southern Ocean, 1000 CE–1850 CE Atholl Anderson
- 21. Polynesians in Central-South Chile: Sailing eastwards José Miguel RamÃrez-Aliaga
- Part V. The evolution of Pacific communities:
- 22. Towards a unified theory for Pacific colonization, exchange, and social complexity Matthew Spriggs
- 23. The evolution of China's political economy of the sea, 960–1900 Kent Deng
- 24. China and the sea in literature, 1644-1839 Ronald C. Po
- 25. Pacific history viewed from Eastern Indonesia: The eastern archipelago of southeast Asia and the sea in the early modern period 1400–1830's Leonard Y. Andaya
- 26. The maritime cultures of the northwest Pacific seaboard of the Americas Madonna L. Moss
- 27. Mesoamerican–south American Pre-Columbian Pacific contacts: Evidence, objects and traditions, 1500 BCE–1532 CE Andrea Ballesteros Danel and Antonio Jaramillo Arango
- Part VI. Europe's Maritime Expansion into the Pacific:
- 28. Iberian conceptions of the Pacific Rainer F. Buschmann and David Manzano Cosano
- 29. Naval rivalry in the Western Pacific: Portugal, England, Holland, and Koxinga, 1600–1720 Dahpon Ho
- 30. The resurgence of Chinese mercantile power in maritime East Asia, 1500–1700 Xing Hang
- 31. The enduring sea cultures of Southeast Asia, seventh–nineteenth centuries CE Jennifer L. Gaynor
- Bibliography to Volume I
- Index.
