1. Introduction; David Armitage and Alison Bashford
PART I: PERIODISING THE PACIFIC
2. The Pacific in Indigenous Time; Damon Salesa
3. The Pacific Before Empire, c. 1500-1800; Joyce E. Chaplin
4. The Age of Empire in the Pacific; Nicholas Thomas
5. A Pacific Century?; Akira Iriye
PART II: CONNECTIONS
6. The Environment; Ryan T. Jones
7. Movement; Adam McKeown
8. The Economy since 1800; Kaoru Sigihara
PART III: KNOWLEDGES
9. Religion; Bronwen Douglas
10. Law; Lisa Ford
11. Science; Sujit Sivasundaram
PART IV: IDENTITIES
12. Race; James Belich
13. Gender; Patricia O'Brien
14. Politics; Robert Aldrich
Afterword: Pacific Crosscurrents; Matt K. Matsuda
Notes
Further Reading
Index.
David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at
Harvard University, USA. He is the author of The Declaration of
Independence: A Global History and Foundations of Modern
International Thought, and co-editor of The British Atlantic World,
1500-1800, 2nd edition, and The Age of Revolutions in Global
Context, c. 1760-1840.
Alison Bashford is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval
History at the University of Cambridge, UK. She has taught Pacific
and Australian history at the University of Sydney, Australia, and
Harvard University, USA. She is the author of, most recently,
Global Population: History, Geopolitics and Life on Earth, and
co-editor of The Cambridge History of Australia.
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