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Book SynopsisVolume I of The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean provides a comprehensive survey from earliest times to 1800. Bringing together an international team of scholars, this volume introduces varied concepts of the Pacific environment and its impact on human history.
Table of ContentsGeneral Editor's Introduction Paul D'Arcy; Preface to Volume I Matt Matsuda and Ryan Tucker Jones; Part I. Rethinking the Pacific: 1. Te Moana nui a Kiwa: The original ocean Witi Ihimaera; 2. The Pacific region in deep time David Christian; 3. The history of humans and whales in the Pacific: Leviathan's families Ryan Tucker Jones; 4. Weaving women's stories: Restoring women and indigenous perspectives into chuukese history Myjolynne Kim; 5. The Pacific world: Doing history from lagoons to the deep Judith A. Bennett; Part II. Humans and the Natural World in the Pacific Ocean: 6. Indigenous knowledge/science of climate and the natural world Chels Alby Marshall; 7. Atolls, experiments, and the origin of islands: Science as a way of knowing the Pacific since 1766 Alistair Sponsel; 8. The birth and development of Pacific islands to 1800 CE Chris Lobban and Maria Schefter; 9. Natural hazards, risks, and peoples in the Pacific world Paul D'Arcy and Cynthia Neri Zayas; Part III. Deep Time: Sources for the Ancient History of the Pacific: 10. Biological anthropology and genetics in Pacific history Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith; 11. The word as artefact: What linguistics can and cannot tell us about the prehistory of the Pacific Paul Geraghty; 12. Oral traditions in Pacific history Morgan Tuimaleali'ifano and Paul D'Arcy; 13. The evolution of Pacific island societies Gregory Waula Bablis; 14. Ancient voyaging capacity in the Pacific: Lessons for the future Peter Nuttall, Simon Penny, Marianne 'Mimi' George, and Sylvia C. Frain; 15. Revitalizing 'traditional' navigation systems in the contemporary Pacific Larry Raigetal; Part IV. The Initial Colonization of the Pacific: 16. Pleistocene voyaging and maritime dispersals in the Pacific Jon M. Erlandson; 17. Early Maritime Navigation and Cultures in Coastal Southern China, Taiwan, and Island Southeast Asia, 6000 to 500 BCE Hsiao-chun Hung; 18. New guinea's past: The last 50,000 years Glenn R. Summerhayes; 19. Austronesian colonization of the Pacific islands, 1000 BCE–1250 CE Stuart Bedford; 20. Seafaring and colonization in the Southern Ocean, 1000 CE–1850 CE Atholl Anderson; 21. Polynesians in Central-South Chile: Sailing eastwards José Miguel Ramírez-Aliaga; Part V. The evolution of Pacific communities: 22. Towards a unified theory for Pacific colonization, exchange, and social complexity Matthew Spriggs; 23. The evolution of China's political economy of the sea, 960–1900 Kent Deng; 24. China and the sea in literature, 1644-1839 Ronald C. Po; 25. Pacific history viewed from Eastern Indonesia: The eastern archipelago of southeast Asia and the sea in the early modern period 1400–1830's Leonard Y. Andaya; 26. The maritime cultures of the northwest Pacific seaboard of the Americas Madonna L. Moss; 27. Mesoamerican–south American Pre-Columbian Pacific contacts: Evidence, objects and traditions, 1500 BCE–1532 CE Andrea Ballesteros Danel and Antonio Jaramillo Arango; Part VI. Europe's Maritime Expansion into the Pacific: 28. Iberian conceptions of the Pacific Rainer F. Buschmann and David Manzano Cosano; 29. Naval rivalry in the Western Pacific: Portugal, England, Holland, and Koxinga, 1600–1720 Dahpon Ho; 30. The resurgence of Chinese mercantile power in maritime East Asia, 1500–1700 Xing Hang; 31. The enduring sea cultures of Southeast Asia, seventh–nineteenth centuries CE Jennifer L. Gaynor; Bibliography to Volume I; Index.
