The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean 2 Volume Hardback Set

A comprehensive history of interactions of Pacific Island and Pacific Rim peoples with the Ocean and with each other.

Paul D'Arcy (General editor), Ryan Tucker Jones (Edited by), Matt K. Matsuda (Edited by), Anne Perez Hattori (Edited by), Jane Samson (Edited by)

9781108539227, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 5 January 2023

1600 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 8.9 cm, 3.13 kg

These volumes present a comprehensive survey of the history of the Pacific Ocean, an area making up around one third of the Earth's surface, from initial human colonization to the present day. Reflecting a wide range of cultural and disciplinary perspectives, this two-volume work details different ways of telling and viewing history in a Pacific world of exceptionally diverse cultural traditions, over time spans that require multidisciplinary and multicultural collaborative perspectives. The central importance of nations touched by the Pacific in contemporary world affairs cannot be understood without recourse to the deep history of interactions on and across the Pacific. In reflecting the diversity and dynamism of the societies of this blue hemisphere, these volumes seek to enhance world histories and broaden readers' perspectives on forms of historical knowledge and expression. Volume I explores the history of the Pacific Ocean pre-1800 and Volume II examines the period from 1800 to the present day.

Part I. Rethinking the Pacific
Part II. Humans and the Natural World in the Pacific Ocean
Part III. Deep Time
Part IV. The Initial Colonization of the Pacific
Part V. The evolution of Pacific communities
Part VI. Europe's Maritime Expansion into the Pacific
Part VII. Rethinking the Pacific
Part VIII. Approaches, Sources, and Subaltern Histories of the Modern Pacific
Part IX. Culture Contact and the Impact of Pre-colonial European Influences
Part X. The Colonial Era in The Pacific
Part XI. The Pacific Century?
Part XII. Pacific Futures.

Subject Areas: Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM], General & world history [HBG]