Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900 – serie
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18 produkter
European Entry into the Pacific
Spain and the Acapulco-Manila Galleons
Av Dennis O. Flynn, Arturo Giráldez
Inbunden, 2001
3839 kr
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World history conventionally ignores or underestimates the importance of Manila, the Manila galleons, and the Philippines as key stages in the development of trans-Pacific contact and of the world economy. Essays in this volume discuss Philippine-Asian exchanges prior to the entry of Europeans, and …
French and the Pacific World, 17th–19th Centuries
Explorations, Migrations and Cultural Exchanges
Inbunden, 2005
3147 kr
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In The French in the Pacific World Annick Foucrier has brought together an important set of studies on the French presence in the Pacific up to the start of the 20th century. The volume opens with a section on the context of the French expansion, including its rivalries with other European powers. …
Defining the Pacific
Opportunities and Constraints
Inbunden, 2002
2126 kr
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This volume lays the physical and conceptual groundwork for the Pacific World series, exploring both the constraints imposed and the opportunities offered to humanity by the physical environment of the Pacific region. Organized from the perspectives of "Big History" and macro-geography, the volume …
Religions and Missionaries around the Pacific, 1500–1900
Av Tanya Storch
Inbunden, 2006
4217 kr
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This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of religious cultural exchanges around the Pacific in the period 1500-1900, relating these to economic and political developments and to the expansion of communication across the area. It brings together twenty-two pieces, from diaries of …
Eclipsed Entrepôts of the Western Pacific
Taiwan and Central Vietnam, 1500-1800
Inbunden, 2002
3147 kr
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Among the great entrepots around the Pacific there were some which had such great advantages of location that for many centuries there always was a trade center somewhere in the vicinity. Others rose to prominence for a time when the political and economic conditions were right, but then were …
Science, Empire and the European Exploration of the Pacific
Inbunden, 2004
3055 kr
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This collection of essays assesses the interrelationship between exploration, empire-building and science in the opening up of the Pacific Ocean by Europeans between the early 16th and mid-19th century. It explores both the role of various sciences in enabling European imperial projects in the …
Japan and the Pacific, 1540–1920
Threat and Opportunity
Av Matsuda Koichiro, Mark Caprio
Inbunden, 2006
4343 kr
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This volume seeks to capture the rich array of images that define Japan's encounters with the Pacific Ocean. Contemporary Japanese most readily associate 'Pacific' with the devastating war that their country fought over a half century ago. The ensuing occupation realized a situation that this …
Textiles in the Pacific, 1500–1900
Av Debin Ma
Inbunden, 2005
3147 kr
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Textiles in the Pacific, 1500-1900 brings together 13 articles which include both classics and lesser-known but important works related to the trade and production of textiles in the Pacific region, extending from the tip of Northeast Asia to the other end of South America and Australia. …
Urbanization and the Pacific World, 1500–1900
Av Lionel Frost
Inbunden, 2005
3147 kr
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Between 1500 and 1900 there was a constant growth in the numbers of large cities and networks of smaller towns throughout the Pacific world in which traders and primary producers did business. The essays in Urbanization and the Pacific World explore the increasingly complex economic relationships …
Chinese Diaspora in the Pacific
Av Anthony Reid
Inbunden, 2008
3894 kr
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The essays reprinted here trace the history of Chinese emigration into the Pacific region, first as individuals, traders or exiles, moving into the 'Nanyang' (Southeast Asia), then as a mass migration across the ocean after the mid-19th century. The papers include discussions of what it meant to be …
Pacific in the Age of Early Industrialization
Inbunden, 2009
3894 kr
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The essays selected for this volume show how the Pacific rapidly became part of an industrializing world. Its raw materials (notably rubber and copper) were critical, some of its handicraft industries were devastated by mechanized competition, others survived and adapted, contributing to …
Peoples of the Pacific
The History of Oceania to 1870
Av Paul D'Arcy
Inbunden, 2008
7671 kr
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Presenting the history of the inhabitants of the Pacific Islands from first colonization until the spread of European colonial rule in the later 19th century, this volume focuses specifically on Pacific Islander-European interactions from the perspective of Pacific Islanders themselves. A number of …
Textiles in the Pacific, 1500–1900
Av Debin Ma
Häftad, 2019
829 kr
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Textiles in the Pacific, 1500-1900 brings together 13 articles which include both classics and lesser-known but important works related to the trade and production of textiles in the Pacific region, extending from the tip of Northeast Asia to the other end of South America and Australia. …
Drugs and Alcohol in the Pacific
New Consumption Trends and their Consequences
Inbunden, 2002
1184 kr
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From the arrival of Europeans in the Pacific in the 16th century, introduced psychoactive drugs have played a crucial role in the history of societies from China to Peru, and from Alaska to Australia. Tobacco, followed by opium, distilled alcohol, caffeinated drinks, as well as laboratory drugs …
Environmental History in the Pacific World
Av J.R. McNeill
Inbunden, 2001
1829 kr
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This volume brings together a set of key articles from the last 30 years pertaining to the environmental history of the Pacific basin. It aims to treat the islands and waters of the Pacific as well as the lands around the Rim, from New Zealand to Japan, to California, to Chile, and is the first …
British Imperial Strategies in the Pacific, 1750-1900
Av Jane Samson
Inbunden, 2003
2182 kr
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The focus of this volume is Britain's trans-Pacific empire. This began with haphazard challenges to Spanish dominion, but by the end of the 18th century, the British had established a colony in Australia and had gone to the brink of war with Spain to establish trading rights in the north Pacific. …
American Empire in the Pacific
From Trade to Strategic Balance, 1700-1922
Inbunden, 2004
2182 kr
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American Empire in the Pacific explores the empire that emerged from the Oregon Treaty of 1846 with Great Britain and the outcome of the Mexican War in 1848. Together, they signalled the mastery of the United States over the continent of North America; the Pacific Ocean and the ancient …
Agriculture and Rural Connections in the Pacific
Inbunden, 2006
2454 kr
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Agriculture and Rural Connections in the Pacific brings together key studies from across several disciplines to examine the history of trans-Pacific rural and agricultural connections and to show an agriculturally-oriented Pacific World in the making since the 1500s. Historical globalization is …
