Oceania, 800-1800CE : a millennium of interactions in a sea of islands /
Over a span of 1,000 years beginning around 800CE, the people of the Pacific Islands undertook a remarkable period of voyaging, political evolution, and cross-cultural interactions. Polynesian navigators encountered previously uninhabited lands, as well as already inhabited islands and the coast of...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Oceania's island world: geographic and conceptual background
- 2. Timeless backwater, or written out of history?
- 3. Encountering new environments: the ends of Polynesia
- 4. Navigating inhabited lands: the Americas and the Polynesian outliers
- 5. Political epics in island societies
- 6. Oceania encounters Europe
- 7. From a millennium of contacts to islander futures
- References.