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The great ocean : Pacific worlds from Captain Cook to the gold rush /
"The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly endless continental shorelines. But with the voyages of Captain James Cook, global attention turned to the Pacific, and Europea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : ocean worlds
- Seas of commerce
- Disease, sex, and Indigenous depopulation
- Hostages and captives
- The great hunt
- Naturalists and natives in the great ocean
- Assembling the Pacific
- Conclusion : when East became West.