Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume I
- Frontispiece
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Preface to Volume I
- Part I Rethinking the Pacific
- 1 Te Moana Nui a Kiwa
- 2 The Pacific Region in Deep Time
- 3 Leviathan’s Families
- 4 Weaving Women’s Stories
- 5 The Pacific World
- Part II Humans and the Natural World in the Pacific Ocean
- Part III Deep Time: Sources for the Ancient History of the Pacific
- Part IV The Initial Colonization of the Pacific
- Part V The Evolution of Pacific Communities
- Part VI Europe’s Maritime Expansion into the Pacific
- References to Volume I
- Index
5 - The Pacific World
Doing History from Lagoons to the Deep
from Part I - Rethinking the Pacific
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2022
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume I
- Frontispiece
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Preface to Volume I
- Part I Rethinking the Pacific
- 1 Te Moana Nui a Kiwa
- 2 The Pacific Region in Deep Time
- 3 Leviathan’s Families
- 4 Weaving Women’s Stories
- 5 The Pacific World
- Part II Humans and the Natural World in the Pacific Ocean
- Part III Deep Time: Sources for the Ancient History of the Pacific
- Part IV The Initial Colonization of the Pacific
- Part V The Evolution of Pacific Communities
- Part VI Europe’s Maritime Expansion into the Pacific
- References to Volume I
- Index
Summary
There are many pathways, in, from, and around the great Pacific World. Within that world and its histories there are many other worlds – places that people carry with them through life, new places they inhabit in the present. Lenses can show these multiple worlds and their many dimensions – the little worlds of atolls or the largest world of the entire region, the basin and the rim, with many in between.
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- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean , pp. 107 - 124Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023