Format:
1 Online-Ressource (336 p.)
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28 b&w illustrations
ISBN:
9780824892258
Series Statement:
Perspectives on the Global Past
Content:
Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World is the first volume explicitly dedicated to the environmental history of Earth’s largest ocean. Covering nearly one-third of the planet, the Pacific Ocean is remarkable for its diverse human and non-human inhabitants, their astounding long-distance migrations over time, and their profound influences on other parts of the world. This book creates an understanding of the past, present, and futures of the lands, seas, peoples, practices, microbes, animals, plants, and other natural forces that shape the Pacific. It effectively argues for the existence of an interconnected Pacific World environmental history, as well as for the Pacific Ocean as a necessary framework for understanding that history.The fifteen chapters in this comprehensive collection, written by leading experts from across the globe, span a vast array of topics, from disease ecology and coffee cultivation to nuclear testing and whaling practices. They explore regions stretching from the Tuamotu Archipelago in the south Pacific to the Kamchatka Peninsula in the far north, resisting the depiction of the Pacific as isolated and uninhabited. What unites these diverse contributions is a concern for how the people, places, and non-human beings of the Pacific World have been shaped by, and have in turn modified, their oceanic realm. Building on a recent renaissance in Pacific history, these chapters make a powerful argument for the importance of the Pacific World as a coherent unit of analysis and a valuable lens through which to examine past, ongoing, and emerging environmental issues. By showcasing surprising and innovative perspectives on the environmental histories of the peoples and ecosystems in and around the Pacific Ocean, this work adds to current conversations and debates about the Pacific World and offers myriad opportunities for further discussions, both inside and outside of the classroom
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Map of the Pacific World
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Preface
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Introduction Environmental Histories of the Pacific World
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1 Long-Distance Animal Migration and the Creation of a Pacific World: A History in Three Species
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2 Many Diasporas: People, Nature, and Movement in Pacific History
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3 Chinese Resource Frontiers, Environmental Change, and Entrepreneurship in the South Pacific, 1790s–1920s
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4 The Third Vector: Pacific Pathogens, Colonial Disease Ecologies, and Native American Epidemics North of Mexico
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5 Sentiment and Gore: Whaling the Pacific World
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6 Changes on the Plantation: An Environmental History of Colonial Samoa
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7 “One Extensive Garden”? Citrus Schemes and Land Use in the Cook Islands, 1900–1970
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8 Settler-Colonialism, Ecology, and Expropriation of Ainu Mosir A Transnational Perspective
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9 Pearl of the Empire Conservation, Commerce, and Science in the Tuamotu Archipelago
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10 From Boki’s Beans to Kona Coffee The ‘Ōiwi (Native) Roots of an Exotic Species
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11 Maunalua: Shifting Nomenclatures and Spatial Reconfiguration in Hawaii Kai
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12 Bait and Switch: Tuna Wars, Territorial Seas, and the Eco-geography of the Eastern Tropical Pacific, 1931–1982
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13 Wintering in the South: Birds, Place, and Flows
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14 Bravo for the Pacific: Nuclear Testing, Ecosystem Ecology, and the Emergence of Direct Action Environmentalism
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15 A Pacific Anthropocene
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About the Contributors
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Index
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In English
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780824892258
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