The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean 2 Volume Hardback Set

Paul D'Arcy teaches Pacific environmental history and ocean futures at Australian National University. He chairs the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau and is a member of the Journal of Pacific History editorial board. Ryan Tucker Jones is Ann Swindells Associate Professor at the University of Oregon. Matt K. Matsuda is Professor at Rutgers University. Anne Perez Hattori is Professor of History at the University of Guam. Jane Samson is Professor of History at the University of Alberta.

'The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean will be an authoritative resource for students and scholars. Each chapter functions both as a concise overview (useful for quickly getting up to speed or to assign for course readings) and as a point of departure, brimming with relevant footnotes and possibilities for further reading and research. Readers interested in a particular theme, time period, or geography will be able to assemble rewarding itineraries through multiple essays. Ultimately, these volumes are like a set of charts, inviting readers to plot their own voyages through the Pacific Ocean's many histories and into its onrushing future.' Sean Fraga, BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly

• Part I. Rethinking the Pacific; Part II. Humans and the Natural World in the Pacific Ocean; Part III. Deep Time; Part IV. The Initial Colonization of the Pacific; Part V. The evolution of Pacific communities; Part VI. Europe's Maritime Expansion into the Pacific; Part VII. Rethinking the Pacific; Part VIII. Approaches, Sources, and Subaltern Histories of the Modern Pacific; Part IX. Culture Contact and the Impact of Pre-colonial European Influences; Part X. The Colonial Era in The Pacific; Part XI. The Pacific Century?; Part XII. Pacific Futures.