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020			_a9781139034319 (ebook)
020			_z9780521887632 (hardback)
020			_z9780521715669 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aDU28.3 _b.M34 2012
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100	1		_aMatsuda, Matt K., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aPacific Worlds : _bA History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures / _cMatt K. Matsuda.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2012.
300			_a1 online resource (454 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aAsia, 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, American, ancient and modern narratives, the author assembles a fascinating Pacific region from a truly global perspective.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521887632
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139034319
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c38561 _d38561