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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David Igler |
ISBN: | 9780199914951 0199914958 |
OCLC Number: | 811599695 |
Description: | xi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Introduction : ocean worlds -- Seas of commerce -- Disease, sex, and indigenous depopulation -- Hostages and captives -- The great hunt -- Naturalists and natives in the great ocean -- Assembling the Pacific -- Conclusion : when East became West. |
Responsibility: | David Igler. |
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[builds] on generations of scholarshipby historians in, and of, the Pacific... [The Great Ocean makes] great strides towards bringing the Americas into Pacific historyand broadening world history to incorporate the Pacific. * David Armitage, The Times Literary Supplement * Here is an admirable example of the new international intercultural maritime history. The research is thorough, the analysis sound ... Highly recommended. * J.C. Perry, CHOICE * Among the numerous accomplishments of this impressive book, the most striking may be its achievement of extending history from its usual terrestrial focus to the ocean ... Igler's contribution not only puts the sea at the center, but succeeds in telling a story that illuminates both human history and the history of a part of the ocean, the waterscape between the coastal Americas and islands scattered throughout the Pacific ... Igler's wonderful book will interestsocial historians, world historians, maritime historians, and others, but among his contributions is the excellent model he provides for ocean history. * Helen M. Rozwadowski, American Historical Review * Read more...


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