The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean 2 Volume Hardback Set

These volumes present a comprehensive survey of the history of the Pacific Ocean, an area making up around one third of the Earth's surface, from initial human colonization to the present day. Reflecting a wide range of cultural and disciplinary perspectives, this two-volume work details different ways of telling and viewing history in a Pacific world of exceptionally diverse cultural traditions, over time spans that require multidisciplinary and multicultural collaborative perspectives. The central importance of nations touched by the Pacific in contemporary world affairs cannot be understood without recourse to the deep history of interactions on and across the Pacific. In reflecting the diversity and dynamism of the societies of this blue hemisphere, these volumes seek to enhance world histories and broaden readers' perspectives on forms of historical knowledge and expression. Volume I explores the history of the Pacific Ocean pre-1800 and Volume II examines the period from 1800 to the present day.

Part I. Rethinking the Pacific; Part II. Humans and the Natural World in the Pacific Ocean; Part III. Deep Time; Part IV. The Initial Colonization of the Pacific; Part V. The evolution of Pacific communities; Part VI. Europe's Maritime Expansion into the Pacific; Part VII. Rethinking the Pacific; Part VIII. Approaches, Sources, and Subaltern Histories of the Modern Pacific; Part IX. Culture Contact and the Impact of Pre-colonial European Influences; Part X. The Colonial Era in The Pacific; Part XI. The Pacific Century?; Part XII. Pacific Futures.