Great Ocean

Name: Great Ocean
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
SKU: 9780199914951
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Autor: David Igler

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The Great Ocean examines the convergence and fragmentation of Pacific worlds during a period of rapi...

Informace o knize

Autor

David Igler

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2013

Stránek

272

EAN

9780199914951

ISBN

0199914958

Enbook ID

01299353

Vydavatel

Oxford University Press Inc

Hmotnost

492

Rozměry

165 x 243 x 28

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The Great Ocean examines the convergence and fragmentation of Pacific worlds during a period of rapidly expanding trade, indigenous depopulation, and scientific investigations. With a particular focus on the eastern Pacific in the decades between the 1770s and the 1840s, this study uncovers world history in the coastal localities where voyagers, traders, hunters, and native peoples met one another through episodes often marked by violence and tragic outcomes. Igler reveals a vast oceanic and coastal geography that gradually became entangled with global circuits. Rather than a single ocean world, this study demonstrates how the eastern Pacific encompassed a variety of seas and a multiplicity of human communities. At the same time, The Great Ocean situates this story in the personal and intimate interactions of different groups, including indigenous

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