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Cambridge University Press, 2012. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). 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,…
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- Title Pacific Worlds
- Author Matt K. Matsuda
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 450
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Date 2012-02-20
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780521715669 / 0521715660
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 1 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Australian
- Cultural Region: Oceania
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Pacific Area - History, Pacific Area - Civilization
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011025055
- Dewey Decimal Code 995
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