The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean: Volume 1, The Pacific Ocean to 1800

A comprehensive survey of Pacific history from earliest times to 1800

Ryan Tucker Jones (Edited by), Matt K. Matsuda (Edited by)

9781108423939, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 5 January 2023

800 pages
23.5 x 16 x 4.3 cm, 1.5 kg

Volume I of The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean provides a wide-ranging survey of Pacific history to 1800. It focuses on varied concepts of the Pacific environment and its impact on human history, as well as tracing the early exploration and colonization of the Pacific, the evolution of Indigenous maritime cultures after colonization, and the disruptive arrival of Europeans. Bringing together a diversity of subjects and viewpoints, this volume introduces a broad variety of topics, engaging fully with emerging environmental and political conflicts over Pacific Ocean spaces. These essays emphasize the impact of the deep history of interactions on and across the Pacific to the present day.

General Editor's Introduction Paul D'Arcy
Preface to Volume I Matt Matsuda and Ryan Tucker Jones
Part I. Rethinking the Pacific: 1. Te Moana nui a Kiwa: The original ocean Witi Ihimaera
2. The Pacific region in deep time David Christian
3. The history of humans and whales in the Pacific: Leviathan's families Ryan Tucker Jones
4. Weaving women's stories: Restoring women and indigenous perspectives into chuukese history Myjolynne Kim
5. The Pacific world: Doing history from lagoons to the deep Judith A. Bennett
Part II. Humans and the Natural World in the Pacific Ocean: 6. Indigenous knowledge/science of climate and the natural world Chels Alby Marshall
7. Atolls, experiments, and the origin of islands: Science as a way of knowing the Pacific since 1766 Alistair Sponsel
8. The birth and development of Pacific islands to 1800 CE Chris Lobban and Maria Schefter
9. Natural hazards, risks, and peoples in the Pacific world Paul D'Arcy and Cynthia Neri Zayas
Part III. Deep Time: Sources for the Ancient History of the Pacific: 10. Biological anthropology and genetics in Pacific history Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith
11. The word as artefact: What linguistics can and cannot tell us about the prehistory of the Pacific Paul Geraghty
12. Oral traditions in Pacific history Morgan Tuimaleali'ifano and Paul D'Arcy
13. The evolution of Pacific island societies Gregory Waula Bablis
14. Ancient voyaging capacity in the Pacific: Lessons for the future Peter Nuttall, Simon Penny, Marianne 'Mimi' George, and Sylvia C. Frain
15. Revitalizing 'traditional' navigation systems in the contemporary Pacific Larry Raigetal
Part IV. The Initial Colonization of the Pacific: 16. Pleistocene voyaging and maritime dispersals in the Pacific Jon M. Erlandson
17. Early Maritime Navigation and Cultures in Coastal Southern China, Taiwan, and Island Southeast Asia, 6000 to 500 BCE Hsiao-chun Hung
18. New guinea's past: The last 50,000 years Glenn R. Summerhayes
19. Austronesian colonization of the Pacific islands, 1000 BCE–1250 CE Stuart Bedford
20. Seafaring and colonization in the Southern Ocean, 1000 CE–1850 CE Atholl Anderson
21. Polynesians in Central-South Chile: Sailing eastwards José Miguel Ramírez-Aliaga
Part V. The evolution of Pacific communities: 22. Towards a unified theory for Pacific colonization, exchange, and social complexity Matthew Spriggs
23. The evolution of China's political economy of the sea, 960–1900 Kent Deng
24. China and the sea in literature, 1644-1839 Ronald C. Po
25. Pacific history viewed from Eastern Indonesia: The eastern archipelago of southeast Asia and the sea in the early modern period 1400–1830's Leonard Y. Andaya
26. The maritime cultures of the northwest Pacific seaboard of the Americas Madonna L. Moss
27. Mesoamerican–south American Pre-Columbian Pacific contacts: Evidence, objects and traditions, 1500 BCE–1532 CE Andrea Ballesteros Danel and Antonio Jaramillo Arango
Part VI. Europe's Maritime Expansion into the Pacific: 28. Iberian conceptions of the Pacific Rainer F. Buschmann and David Manzano Cosano
29. Naval rivalry in the Western Pacific: Portugal, England, Holland, and Koxinga, 1600–1720 Dahpon Ho
30. The resurgence of Chinese mercantile power in maritime East Asia, 1500–1700 Xing Hang
31. The enduring sea cultures of Southeast Asia, seventh–nineteenth centuries CE Jennifer L. Gaynor
Bibliography to Volume I
Index.

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