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The Pacific.
"In this fascinating and exciting overview, Donald B. Freeman explores the role of the Pacific Ocean in human history. Covering over one third of the globe, the Pacific Ocean plays a vital role in the lives and fortunes of more than two billion people who live on its rim-lands and islands. It h...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Seas in history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; 1 COMPREHENDING THE PACIFIC: ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES AND EFFECTS; Geographic influences; Climatic-oceanographic influences; Tectonic influences; The interplay of environmental effects; The significance of environmental change; 2 PEOPLING THE PACIFIC: FROM PREHISTORY TO THE FIRST EUROPEAN INCURSIONS; Asian origins of Pacific peoples; Influential cultures of the Asian Pacific rim; Peopling the American Pacific rim.
- Cultural realms of the Pacific basin3 CLAIMING THE PACIFIC: EUROPEAN, ASIAN ANDAMERICAN EXPLORATION AND ANNEXATION; Claiming the 'New World'; The Asian Pacific rim; In search of fabled lands; Hunting the mythical north-west passage; Pacific claims and counterclaims; Improving access to Pacific territories; Cultivating imperial claims; Exploring the last Pacific frontier; 4 ENCOMPASSING THE PACIFIC: REVOLUTIONS INTRANSPORT, NAVIGATION AND CHART MAKING; 'Seaworthy' ships and the Pacific environment; Surviving long Pacific voyages; Improved navigation aids; Modern transpacific navigation.
- 5 EXPLOITING PACIFIC RESOURCES Use and abuse of common property resources; The Pacific as a lawless, exploitable frontier; The assault on Pacific resources; Modern overfishing; Hastening environmental destruction; Lawlessness and Pacific labour exploitation; Resources and conflict in the Pacific rim; Current environmental issues; 6 CONTESTING THE PACIFIC: MILITARY ACTIVITY, COLONIAL STRUGGLE AND IMPERIAL COMPETITION; Contesting Indigenous rights in the Pacific; Conflict on the Asian Pacific rim; European rivalry in the Pacific; The scramble for colonial possessions; Open warfare in the Pacific.
- The nuclear age in the Pacific7 PICTURING THE PACIFIC: THE OCEAN HEMISPHERE IN ART, LITERATURE AND FILM; Pacific art and European imagination; Pacific art and European morality; Pacific art and European markets; Pacific influences on European literature; Fact and fantasy in modern depictions of the Pacific; The Pacific as a research laboratory; Picturing cultural history in the Pacific; Scientific myths about the Pacific; 8 DEVELOPING THE PACIFIC: POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE, ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; Nation-building in the Pacific basin; Development in the Pacific rim.
- Environmental protection and development in the Pacific CONCLUSION; Selected bibliography; Index.