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Pacific Worlds
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Author : Matt K. Matsuda
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-01-19
Pacific Worlds written by Matt K. Matsuda and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-19 with History categories.
Essential single-volume history of the Pacific region and the global interactions which define it.
The Great Ocean
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Author : David Igler
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-18
The Great Ocean written by David Igler and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-18 with History categories.
The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly endless continental shorelines. But with the voyages of Captain James Cook, global attention turned to the Pacific, and European and American dreams of scientific exploration, trade, and empire grew dramatically. By the time of the California gold rush, the Pacific's many shores were fully integrated into world markets-and world consciousness. The Great Ocean draws on hundreds of documented voyages--some painstakingly recorded by participants, some only known by archeological remains or indigenous memory--as a window into the commercial, cultural, and ecological upheavals following Cook's exploits, focusing in particular on the eastern Pacific in the decades between the 1770s and the 1840s. Beginning with the expansion of trade as seen via the travels of William Shaler, captain of the American Brig Lelia Byrd, historian David Igler uncovers a world where voyagers, traders, hunters, and native peoples met one another in episodes often marked by violence and tragedy. Igler describes how indigenous communities struggled against introduced diseases that cut through the heart of their communities; how the ordeal of Russian Timofei Tarakanov typified the common practice of taking hostages and prisoners; how Mary Brewster witnessed first-hand the bloody "great hunt" that decimated otters, seals, and whales; how Adelbert von Chamisso scoured the region, carefully compiling his notes on natural history; and how James Dwight Dana rivaled Charles Darwin in his pursuit of knowledge on a global scale. These stories--and the historical themes that tie them together--offer a fresh perspective on the oceanic worlds of the eastern Pacific. Ambitious and broadly conceived, The Great Ocean is the first book to weave together American, oceanic, and world history in a path-breaking portrait of the Pacific world.
Across Species And Cultures
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Author : Ryan Tucker Jones
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2022-07-31
Across Species And Cultures written by Ryan Tucker Jones and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-31 with History categories.
More than any other locale, the Pacific Ocean has been the meeting place between humans and whales. From Indigenous Pacific peoples who built lives and cosmologies around whales, to Euro-American whalers who descended upon the Pacific during the nineteenth century, and to the new forms of human-cetacean partnerships that have emerged from the late twentieth century, the relationship between these two species has been central to the ocean’s history. Across Species and Cultures: Whales, Humans, and Pacific Worlds offers for the first time a critical, wide-ranging geographical and temporal look at the varieties of whale histories in the Pacific. The essay contributors, hailing from around the Pacific, present a wealth of fascinating stories while breaking new methodological ground in environmental history, women’s history, animal studies, and Indigenous ontologies. In the process they reveal previously hidden aspects of the story of Pacific whaling, including the contributions of Indigenous people to capitalist whaling, the industry’s exceptionally far-reaching spread, and its overlooked second life as a global, industrial slaughter in the twentieth century. While pointing to striking continuities in whaling histories around the Pacific, Across Species and Cultures also reveals deep tensions: between environmentalists and Indigenous peoples, between ideas and realities, and between the North and South Pacific. The book delves in unprecedented ways into the lives and histories of whales themselves. Despite the worst ravages of commercial and industrial whaling, whales survived two centuries of mass killing in the Pacific. Their perseverance continues to nourish many human communities around and in the Pacific Ocean where they are hunted as commodities, regarded as signs of wealth and power, act as providers and protectors, but are also ancestors, providing a bridge between human and nonhuman worlds.
The Island World Of The Pacific Ocean
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Author : Charles Marion Tyler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
The Island World Of The Pacific Ocean written by Charles Marion Tyler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Ethnology categories.
Worlds Apart
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Author : Ian Christopher Campbell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Worlds Apart written by Ian Christopher Campbell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Islands of the Pacific categories.
This title spans the entire history of the Pacific Islands. From the first settlement by the native islanders, through the centuries of European contact, cultural influence and colonialism, to the coming of independence and more recent troubles since then. This title will appeal to the general reader with its non-academic style.
Guano And The Opening Of The Pacific World
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Author : Gregory T. Cushman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-25
Guano And The Opening Of The Pacific World written by Gregory T. Cushman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-25 with Business & Economics categories.
This book traces the history of bird guano, demonstrating how this unique commodity helped unite the Pacific Basin with the industrialized world.
Gendering The Trans Pacific World
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-03-06
Gendering The Trans Pacific World written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-06 with Social Science categories.
Gendering the Trans-Pacific World introduces an emergent interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field that highlights the inextricable link between gender and the trans-Pacific world. The anthology examines the geographies of empire, the significance of intimacy and affect, the importance of beauty and the body, and the circulation of culture.
Explorations And Entanglements
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Author : Hartmut Berghoff
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2018-11-16
Explorations And Entanglements written by Hartmut Berghoff and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-16 with History categories.
Traditionally, Germany has been considered a minor player in Pacific history: its presence there was more limited than that of other European nations, and whereas its European rivals established themselves as imperial forces beginning in the early modern era, Germany did not seriously pursue colonialism until the nineteenth century. Yet thanks to recent advances in the field emphasizing transoceanic networks and cultural encounters, it is now possible to develop a more nuanced understanding of the history of Germans in the Pacific. The studies gathered here offer fascinating research into German missionary, commercial, scientific, and imperial activity against the backdrop of the Pacific’s overlapping cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits.
Navigating The Spanish Lake
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Author : Rainer F. Buschmann
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2014-05-31
Navigating The Spanish Lake written by Rainer F. Buschmann and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-31 with History categories.
Navigating the Spanish Lake examines Spain’s long presence in the Pacific Ocean (1521–1898) in the context of its global empire. Building on a growing body of literature on the Atlantic world and indigenous peoples in the Pacific, this pioneering book investigates the historiographical “Spanish Lake” as an artifact that unites the Pacific Rim (the Americas and Asia) and Basin (Oceania) with the Iberian Atlantic. Incorporating an impressive array of unpublished archival materials on Spain’s two most important island possessions (Guam and the Philippines) and foreign policy in the South Sea, the book brings the Pacific into the prevailing Atlanticentric scholarship, challenging many standard interpretations. By examining Castile’s cultural heritage in the Pacific through the lens of archipelagic Hispanization, the authors bring a new comparative methodology to an important field of research. The book opens with a macrohistorical perspective of the conceptual and literal Spanish Lake. The chapters that follow explore both the Iberian vision of the Pacific and indigenous counternarratives; chart the history of a Chinese mestizo regiment that emerged after Britain’s occupation of Manila in 1762-1764; and examine how Chamorros responded to waves of newcomers making their way to Guam from Europe, the Americas, and Asia. An epilogue analyzes the decline of Spanish influence against a backdrop of European and American imperial ambitions and reflects on the legacies of archipelagic Hispanization into the twenty-first century. Specialists and students of Pacific studies, world history, the Spanish colonial era, maritime history, early modern Europe, and Asian studies will welcome Navigating the Spanish Lake as a persuasive reorientation of the Pacific in both Iberian and world history.
Across Species And Cultures
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Author : Ryan Tucker Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Across Species And Cultures written by Ryan Tucker Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Human-animal relationships categories.
Māori Women and Shore Whaling in Southern New Zealand / Kate Stevens and Angela Wanhalla -- Animals, Race, and the "Gospel of Kindness": The American Whaling Fleet of the Pacific World / Lissa Wadewitz -- Whales' Teeth: A Niche Commodity of the Nineteenth-Century Pacific Sperm Whaling Industry / Nancy Shoemaker -- Newspaper Stories Promoting Local Nineteenth-Century Shore-Based Whaling within the Hawaiian Archipelago / Susan A. Lebo -- Birth of a Pelagic Empire: Japanese Whaling and Early Territorial Expansions in the Pacific / Jakobina Arch -- Precursors of the Japanese Pacific Pivot: Drift Whales, Ainu, and the Tokugawa State along the 1850s Okhotsk Arc / Noell Wilson -- The Different Currents of Japanese Whaling: A Case Study of Baird's Beaked Whale Foodways in the Kanto and Tohoku Regions / Akamine Jun -- Whale Country: Bering Strait Bowheads and their Hunters in the Nineteenth Century / Bathsheba Demuth -- Two Landings in Lorino: How Environmentalists Confronted the Soviets in the Bering Strait and Discovered Subsistence Whaling / Ryan Tucker Jones -- Swimming with Gigi: Captivity, Gray Whales, and the Environmental Culture of the Pacific Coast / Jason M. Colby -- Ngarrindjeri Whalers: Culture Contact, History, and Reconciliation / Adam Paterson and Christopher Wilson -- Whale Tales: (Re)Discovering Whales and Whaling in Puget Sound Salish Culture and History / Jonathan Clapperton and the Squaxin Island Tribe -- Ancestor's Voice -- Heeding the Call of Paikea: A Whakapapa Approach to Whaling and Whale People in Aotearoa-New Zealand / Billie Lythberg and Wayne Ngata -- Afterword: Whale Peoples, Pacific Worlds / Joshua L. Reid.