Pacific histories : ocean, land, people / edited by David Armitage, Alison Bashford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Armitage, David, 1965- editor.

Bashford, Alison, 1963- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islands of the Pacific--History.

Islands of the Pacific.

Islands of the Pacific--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

371 pages : ǂb illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; ǂc 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

This is 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 ands 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 American, with close attention to 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 Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: The Pacific and its Histories / David Armitage Armitage, David, Alison Bashford Bashford, Alison 1

Part I Periodising the Pacific

2 The Pacific in Indigenous Time / Damon Salesa Salesa, Damon 31

3 The Pacific before Empire, c. 1500-1800 / Joyce E. Chaplin Chaplin, Joyce E. 53

4 The Age of Empire in the Pacific / Nicholas Thomas Thomas, Nicholas 75

5 A Pacific Century? / Akira Iriye Iriye, Akira 97

Part II Connections

6 The Environment / Ryan Tucker Jones Jones, Ryan Tucker 121

7 Movement / Adam McKeown McKeown, Adam 143

8 The Economy since 1800 / Kaoru Sugihara Sugihara, Kaoru 166

Part III Knowledges

9 Religion / Bronwen Douglas Douglas, Bronwen 193

10 Law / Lisa Ford Ford, Lisa 216

11 Science / Sujit Sivasundaram Sivasundaram, Sujit 237

Part IV Identities

12 Race / James Belich Belich, James 263

13 Gender / Patricia O'Brien O'Brien, Patricia 282

14 Politics / Robert Aldrich Aldrich, Robert 305.

ISBN:

9781137001634

1137001631

9781137001658

1137001658

OCLC:

868268509