Pacific histories : ocean, land, people /
"The first comprehensive volume to bring together the histories of the Pacific Islands, the Pacific Rim and the Pacific Ocean. A distinguished international team of historians provides a multidimensional account of the Pacific, its inhabitants and the lands within and around it -- from the firs...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the Pacific and its histories / David Armitage and Alison Bashford
- The Pacific in indigenous time / Damon Salesa
- The Pacific before empire, c. 1500-1800 / Joyce E. Chaplin
- The age of empire in the Pacific / Nicholas Thomas
- A Pacific century? / Akira Iriye
- The environment / Ryan Tucker Jones
- Movement / Adam McKeown
- The economy since 1800 / Kaoru Sugihara
- Religion / Bronwen Douglas
- Law / Lisa Ford
- Science / Sujit Sivasundaram
- Race / James Belich
- Gender / Patricia O'Brien
- Politics / Robert Aldrich
- Afterword: Pacific cross-currents / Matt K. Matsuda.