Format:
Online-Ressource (272 p)
ISBN:
9780415775724
Series Statement:
Seas in History
Content:
In this fascinating and exciting overview, Donald B. Freeman explores the role of the Pacific Ocean in human history.Covering over one third of the globe, the Pacific Ocean plays a vital role in the lives and fortunes of more than two billion people who live on its rim-lands and islands. It has played a crucial part in shaping the histories of the different Pacific cultures, towards which it has appeared in a variety of different guises. Exploring the ocean's place in human history, this wide ranging book draws together the long and varied physical, economic, cultural and poli
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; 1 COMPREHENDING THE PACIFIC: ENVIRONMENTALINFLUENCES AND EFFECTS; Geographic influences; Climatic-oceanographic influences; Tectonic influences; The interplay of environmental effects; The significance of environmental change; 2 PEOPLING THE PACIFIC: FROM PREHISTORYTO THE FIRST EUROPEAN INCURSIONS; Asian origins of Pacific peoples; Influential cultures of the Asian Pacific rim; Peopling the American Pacific rim
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Cultural realms of the Pacific basin3 CLAIMING THE PACIFIC: EUROPEAN, ASIAN ANDAMERICAN EXPLORATION AND ANNEXATION; Claiming the 'New World'; The Asian Pacific rim; In search of fabled lands; Hunting the mythical north-west passage; Pacific claims and counterclaims; Improving access to Pacific territories; Cultivating imperial claims; Exploring the last Pacific frontier; 4 ENCOMPASSING THE PACIFIC: REVOLUTIONS INTRANSPORT, NAVIGATION AND CHART MAKING; 'Seaworthy' ships and the Pacific environment; Surviving long Pacific voyages; Improved navigation aids; Modern transpacific navigation
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5 EXPLOITING PACIFIC RESOURCESUse and abuse of common property resources; The Pacific as a lawless, exploitable frontier; The assault on Pacific resources; Modern overfishing; Hastening environmental destruction; Lawlessness and Pacific labour exploitation; Resources and conflict in the Pacific rim; Current environmental issues; 6 CONTESTING THE PACIFIC: MILITARY ACTIVITY,COLONIAL STRUGGLE AND IMPERIAL COMPETITION; Contesting indigenous rights in the Pacific; Conflict on the Asian Pacific rim; European rivalry in the Pacific; The scramble for colonial possessions; Open warfare in the Pacific
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The nuclear age in the Pacific7 PICTURING THE PACIFIC: THE OCEANHEMISPHERE IN ART, LITERATURE AND FILM; Pacific art and European imagination; Pacific art and European morality; Pacific art and European markets; Pacific influences on European literature; Fact and fantasy in modern depictions of the Pacific; The Pacific as a research laboratory; Picturing cultural history in the Pacific; Scientific myths about the Pacific; 8 DEVELOPING THE PACIFIC: POLITICALINDEPENDENCE, ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENTAND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; Nation-building in the Pacific basin; Development in the Pacific rim
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Environmental protection and development in the PacificCONCLUSION; Selected bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781136604164
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415775724
Additional Edition:
Print version The Pacific
Language:
English
Keywords:
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