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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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Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors: Beattie, James (Contributor, Editor), Cavert, William Matt (Contributor), Cavert, William (Contributor), Cutting-Jones, Hannah (Contributor), Dallam Melillo, Edward (Contributor), Droessler, Holger (Contributor), Hirano, Katsuya (Contributor), Jones, Ryan Tucker (Contributor, Editor), Madley, Benjamin (Contributor), Matteson, Kieko (Editor), McNeill, John R. (Contributor), Melillo, Edward Dallam (Contributor, Editor), Morgan, Ruth A. (Contributor), O'Gorman, Emily (Contributor), Rosenthal, Gregory Samantha (Contributor), Solomon, N. Ha'alilio (Contributor), Wadewitz, Lissa K. (Contributor), Wintersteen, Kristin A. (Contributor), Yang, Anand A. (Editor), Zelko, Frank (Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2022]
Series:Perspectives on the Global Past
Subjects:
Ecology > Pacific Area > History > Congresses.
Human ecology > Pacific Area > History > Congresses.
HISTORY / Oceania.
Ecology
Human ecology
Pacific Area
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Map of the Pacific World
  • Preface
  • Introduction Environmental Histories of the Pacific World
  • 1 Long-Distance Animal Migration and the Creation of a Pacific World: A History in Three Species
  • 2 Many Diasporas: People, Nature, and Movement in Pacific History
  • 3 Chinese Resource Frontiers, Environmental Change, and Entrepreneurship in the South Pacific, 1790s-1920s
  • 4 The Third Vector: Pacific Pathogens, Colonial Disease Ecologies, and Native American Epidemics North of Mexico
  • 5 Sentiment and Gore: Whaling the Pacific World
  • 6 Changes on the Plantation: An Environmental History of Colonial Samoa
  • 7 "One Extensive Garden"? Citrus Schemes and Land Use in the Cook Islands, 1900-1970
  • 8 Settler-Colonialism, Ecology, and Expropriation of Ainu Mosir A Transnational Perspective
  • 9 Pearl of the Empire Conservation, Commerce, and Science in the Tuamotu Archipelago
  • 10 From Boki's Beans to Kona Coffee The 'Ōiwi (Native) Roots of an Exotic Species
  • 11 Maunalua: Shifting Nomenclatures and Spatial Reconfiguration in Hawaii Kai
  • 12 Bait and Switch: Tuna Wars, Territorial Seas, and the Eco-geography of the Eastern Tropical Pacific, 1931-1982
  • 13 Wintering in the South: Birds, Place, and Flows
  • 14 Bravo for the Pacific: Nuclear Testing, Ecosystem Ecology, and the Emergence of Direct Action Environmentalism
  • 15 A Pacific Anthropocene
  • About the Contributors
  • Index