The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean

A comprehensive survey of Pacific history from 1800 to the present day.

Anne Perez Hattori (Edited by), Jane Samson (Edited by)

9781316510407, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 5 January 2023

800 pages
23.5 x 16 x 4.7 cm, 1.63 kg

Volume II of The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean focuses on the latest era of Pacific history, examining the period from 1800 to the present day. This volume discusses advances and emerging trends in the historiography of the colonial era, before outlining the main themes of the twentieth century when the idea of a Pacific-centred century emerged. It concludes by exploring how history and the past inform preparations for the emerging challenges of the future. These essays emphasise the importance of understanding how the postcolonial period shaped the modern Pacific and its historians.

General Editor's Introduction Paul D'Arcy
Preface to Volume II Anne Perez Hattori and Jane Samson
Part VII. Rethinking the Pacific: 32. Climate change, rising seas, and endangered island nations Hilda Heine, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, and Jo-Jikum
33. Authority, identity, and place in the Pacific ocean and its hinterlands, c. 1200 to c. 2000 Lewis Mayo
34. Europe's other? Academic discourse on the Pacific as a cultural space Anna Johnston
35. The phantom empire: Japan in oceania and oceania in Japan from the 1890's onward Greg Dvorak
36. Blue continent to blue Pacific Jane Samson
Part VIII. Approaches, Sources, and Subaltern Histories of the Modern Pacific: 37. Archives and community memory in the Pacific Opeta Alefaio and Nicholas Halter
38. Missing in action: Women's under-representation and decolonizing the archival experience Safua Akeli Amaama
39. Rethinking gender and identity in Asia and the Pacific Angela Wanhalla
40. Fifty years of the Hawaiian nation: Integrations of resistance, language, and the love of our land Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo?ole Osorio
41. Pacific literature and history Alice Te Punga Somerville
42. Film and Pacific history Alexander Mawyer
43. The visual and performing arts of the Pacific: A historical overview Adrienne L. Kaeppler
Part IX. Culture Contact and the Impact of Pre-colonial European Influences: 44. The Pacific in the age of revolutions Sujit Sivasundaram
45. Disease in Pacific history: 'The fatal impact'? Vicki Luker
46. Culture and christian missions in the Pacific Helen Gardner
47. Trading nature in the Pacific: Ecological exchange prior to 1900 David Igler
48 Seaborne ethnography to the science of race, 1521–1850 Bronwen Douglas
Part X. The Colonial Era in The Pacific: 49. Political developments in the Pacific islands in the nineteenth century Lorenz Gonschor
50. Timorese islanders and the Portuguese empire in the Indonesian archipelago Ricardo Roque
51. Pacific bodies and personal space redefined, 1850–1960 Jacqueline Leckie
52. The Pacific in the age of steam, undersea cables. and wireless telegraphy, 1860–1930 Frances Steel
53. Latin America's Pacific ambitions, 1571 to the present Edward Melillo
Part XI. The Pacific Century? :54. The USA and the Pacific since 1800: Manifestly facing west David Hanlon
55. World war II and the Pacific Judith A. Bennett and Lin Poyer
56. The nuclear Pacific: From Hiroshima to Fukushima, 1945–2018 Barbara Johnston
57. Shrinking the Pacific since 1945: Containerships, jets, and internet Peter J. Rimmer and Howard W. Dick
58. China and the Pacific since 1949 Fei Sheng and Paul D'Arcy
59. Pacific island nations since independence: 1960 to the present Stephanie Lawson
Part XII. Pacific Futures: 60. Ancestral voices of the sea: Hearing the past to lead the future T?vita O. Ka'ili
61. Defining the contours of the lagoon: Political strategies towards post-nouméa accord political futures in New Caledonia Anthony Tutugoro
62. New Pacific voyages since independence: 1960 onwards Roannie Ng Shui and Rochelle Bailey
63. Creating sustainable Pacific environments during the Anthropocene: The lessons of Pacific History Tamatoa Bambridge and Gonzaga Puas
64. Concluding Reflection: 'Choppy Waters' Anne Perez Hattori
Bibliography to Volume II
Index.

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