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Hardback. New. Asia, the Pacific Islands and the coasts of the Americas have long been studied separately. This groundbreaking history of the Pacific traces the global interactions and remarkable peoples that have connected these regions for centuries from ancient canoe navigators, pirates and seaborne empires, to colonialism, nuclear testing and global warming. ISBN 0521887631 9780521887632 [GB]
ISBN10: 0521887631, ISBN13: 9780521887632, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'Asia, the Pacific Islands and the coasts of the Americas have long been studied separately. This essential single-volume history of the Pacific traces the global interactions and remarkable peoples that have connected these regions with each other and with Europe and the Indian Ocean, for millennia. From ancient canoe navigators, monumental civilisations, pirates and seaborne empires, to the rise of nuclear testing and global warming, Matt Matsuda ranges across the frontiers of colonial history, anthropology and Pacific Rim economics and politics, piecing together a history of the region. The book identifies and draws together the defining threads and extraordinary personal narratives which have contributed to this history, showing how localised contacts and contests have often blossomed into global struggles over colonialism, tourism and the rise of Asian economies. Drawing on Asian, Oceanian, European, American, ancient and modern narratives, the author assembles a fascinating Pacific region from a truly global perspective'-- [Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2012] ...
ISBN10: 0521887631, ISBN13: 9780521887632, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover Like New [Redhill, SURRE, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2012]
ISBN10: 0521887631, ISBN13: 9780521887632, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'Asia, the Pacific Islands and the coasts of the Americas have long been studied separately. This essential single-volume history of the Pacific traces the global interactions and remarkable peoples that have connected these regions with each other and with Europe and the Indian Ocean, for millennia. From ancient canoe navigators, monumental civilisations, pirates and seaborne empires, to the rise of nuclear testing and global warming, Matt Matsuda ranges across the frontiers of colonial history, anthropology and Pacific Rim economics and politics, piecing together a history of the region. The book identifies and draws together the defining threads and extraordinary personal narratives which have contributed to this history, showing how localised contacts and contests have often blossomed into global struggles over colonialism, tourism and the rise of Asian economies. Drawing on Asian, Oceanian, European, American, ancient and modern narratives, the author assembles a fascinating Pacific region from a truly global perspective'-- [Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2012] ...
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