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Pacific Worlds
Matt K. Matsuda
其他書名
A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures
出版Cambridge University Press, 2012-01-19
主題History / Australia & New ZealandHistory / WorldHistory / OceaniaSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
ISBN05218876319780521887632
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vvy2VITgvCIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Asia, the Pacific Islands and the coasts of the Americas have long been studied separately. This essential single-volume history of the Pacific traces the global interactions and remarkable peoples that have connected these regions with each other and with Europe and the Indian Ocean, for millennia. From ancient canoe navigators, monumental civilisations, pirates and seaborne empires, to the rise of nuclear testing and global warming, Matt Matsuda ranges across the frontiers of colonial history, anthropology and Pacific Rim economics and politics, piecing together a history of the region. The book identifies and draws together the defining threads and extraordinary personal narratives which have contributed to this history, showing how localised contacts and contests have often blossomed into global struggles over colonialism, tourism and the rise of Asian economies. Drawing on Asian, Oceanian, European, American, ancient and modern narratives, the author assembles a fascinating Pacific region from a truly global perspective.