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Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World is the first volume explicitly dedicated to the environmental history of Earth's largest ocean. Covering nearly one-third of the planet, the Pacific Ocean is remarkable for its diverse human and non-human inhabitants, their astound...

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Other Authors: Beattie, James, 1977- (Editor), Jones, Ryan Tucker (Editor), Melillo, Edward D. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2022].
Series:Perspectives on the global past.
Subjects:
Human ecology > Pacific Area > History > Congresses.
Ecology > Pacific Area > History > Congresses.
Pacific Ocean > Environmental conditions > Congresses.
Table of Contents:
  • Long-Distance Animal Migration and the Creation of a Pacific World: A History in Three Species / Ryan Tucker Jones
  • Many Diasporas: People, Nature, and Movement in Pacific History / Gregory Samantha Rosenthal
  • Chinese Resource Frontiers, Environmental Change, and Entrepreneurship in the South Pacific, 1790s-1920s / James Beattie
  • The Third Vector: Pacific Pathogens, Colonial Disease Ecologies, and Native American Epidemics North of Mexico / Benjamin Madley
  • Sentiment and Gore: Whaling the Pacific World / Lissa Wadewitz
  • Changes on the Plantation: An Environmental History of Colonial Samoa / Holger Droessler
  • "One Extensive Garden"? Citrus Schemes and Land Use in the Cook Islands, 1900-1970 / Hannah Cutting-Jones
  • Settler-Colonialism, Ecology, and Expropriation of Ainu Mosir: A Transnational Perspective / Katsuya Hirano
  • Pearl of the Empire: Conservation, Commerce, and Science in the Tuamotu Archipelago / William Cavert
  • From Boki's Beans to Kona Coffee: The ʻŌiwi (Native) Roots of an Exotic Species / Edward Dallam Melillo
  • Maunalua: Shifting Nomenclatures and Spatial Reconfiguration in Hawaii Kai / N. Haʻalilio Solomon
  • Bait and Switch: Tuna Wars, Territorial Seas, and the Ecogeography of the Eastern Tropical Pacific, 1931-1982 / Kristin A. Wintersteen
  • Wintering in the South: Birds, Place, and Flows / Emily O'Gorman
  • Bravo for the Pacific: Nuclear Testing, Ecosystem Ecology, and the Emergence of Direct Action Environmentalism / Frank Zelko
  • A Pacific Anthropocene / Ruth A. Morgan.