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Pacific Histories

Ocean, Land, People
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Pacific Histories offers the first comprehensive account placing the Pacific Islands, Pacific Rim and Pacific Ocean within world history. Covering 50,000 years, a distinguished international team examines the peoples of Oceania through themes including environment, migration, economy, religion, law, science, race, gender and politics.
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The first comprehensive account to place the Pacific Islands, the Pacific Rim and the Pacific Ocean into the perspective of world history.

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The first comprehensive account to place the Pacific Islands, the Pacific Rim and the Pacific Ocean into the perspective of world history. A distinguished international team of historians provides a multidimensional account of the Pacific, its inhabitants and the lands within and around it over 50,000 years, with special attention to the peoples of Oceania.

It provides chronological coverage along with analyses of themes such as the environment, migration and the economy; religion, law and science; race, gender and politics.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781137001634

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 December 2013

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 134.0mm

Height: 214.0mm

Weight: 480g

Pages: 386

About the Author

David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University, USA. He is the author of The Declaration of Independence: A Global History and Foundations of Modern International Thought, and co-editor of The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800, 2nd edition, and The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760-1840.

Alison Bashford is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge, UK. She has taught Pacific and Australian history at the University of Sydney, Australia, and Harvard University, USA. She is the author of, most recently, Global Population: History, Geopolitics and Life on Earth, and co-editor of The Cambridge History of Australia.

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