Pacific histories
Subtitle: ocean, land, people
By: edited by David Armitage and Alison Bashford
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9781137001634; 9781137001658
Subjects: Social life and customs; Manners and customs; History; Sozioökonomischer Wandel
Description: "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 first human migrations to the present. The book covers the Pacific from Russia to Antarctica and from Southeast Asia to Central America, with focused attention on the peoples of Oceania. It introduces the Pacific's multiple pasts, before examining major themes in Pacific history: the connections created by the environment, migration and the economy; religious, legal and scientific ways of knowing; and the identities expressed in ideas and practices of race, gender and politics"--Page [i].

Includes primary source material.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the Pacific and its histories / David Armitage and Alison Bashford; title: The Pacific in indigenous time / Damon Salesa; title: The Pacific before empire, c. 1500-1800 / Joyce E. Chaplin; title: The age of empire in the Pacific / Nicholas Thomas; title: A Pacific century? / Akira Iriye; title: The environment / Ryan Tucker Jones; title: Movement / Adam McKeown; title: The economy since 1800 / Kaoru Sugihara; title: Religion / Bronwen Douglas; title: Law / Lisa Ford; title: Science / Sujit Sivasundaram; title: Race / James Belich; title: Gender / Patricia O'Brien; title: Politics / Robert Aldrich; title: Afterword: Pacific cross-currents / Matt K. Matsuda.