Pacific Worlds A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures

Name: Pacific Worlds A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures
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ISBN: 9780521715669

ISBN-10: 0521715660

ISBN-13: 9780521715669

Edition: 2011

Authors: Matt K. Matsuda

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Book details

List price: $45.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/19/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 450
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Matt Matsuda is Professor of History at Rutgers University where he teaches Modern European and Asia-Pacific comparative histories. His previous publications include Empire of Love: Histories of France and the Pacific (2003).



List of illustrations


List of maps


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Encircling the ocean



Civilization without a center



Trading rings and tidal empires



Straits, sultans, and treasure fleets



Conquered colonies and Iberian ambitions



Island encounters and the Spanish lake



Sea changes and Spice Islands



Samurai, priests, and potentates



Pirates and raiders of the Eastern seas



Asia, America, and the age of the galleons



Navigators of Polynesia and paradise



Gods and sky piercers



Extremities of the Great Southern Continent



The world that Canton made



Hags, treaties, and gunboats



Migrations, plantations, and the people trade



Imperial destinies on foreign shores



Traditions of engagement and ethnography



War stories from the Pacific theater



Prophets and rebels of decolonization



Critical mass for the earth and ocean



Specters of memory, agents of development



Repairing legacies, claiming histories


Afterword: World heritage


Notes


Index