Great Ocean Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush

Name: Great Ocean Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush
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ISBN: 9780199914951

ISBN-10: 0199914958

ISBN-13: 9780199914951

Edition: 2013

Authors: David Igler

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The Great Ocean examines the convergence and fragmentation of Pacific worlds during a period of rapidly expanding trade, indigenous depopulation, and scientific investigations. With a particular focus on the eastern Pacific in the decades between the 1770s and the 1840s, this study uncovers world history in the coastal localities where voyagers, traders, hunters, and native peoples met one another through episodes often marked by violence and tragic outcomes.Igler reveals a vast oceanic and coastal geography that gradually became entangled with global circuits. Rather than a single ocean world, this study demonstrates how the eastern Pacific encompassed a variety of seas and a multiplicity…

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List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/16/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.49" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

David Igler is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Ocean Worlds



Seas of Commerce



Disease, Sex, and Indigenous Depopulation



Hostages and Captives



The Great Hunt



Naturalists and Natives in the Great Ocean



Assembling the Pacific


Conclusion: When East Became West


Notes


Bibliography


Index