Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume I
- Frontispiece
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Preface to Volume I
- Part I Rethinking the Pacific
- 1 Te Moana Nui a Kiwa
- 2 The Pacific Region in Deep Time
- 3 Leviathan’s Families
- 4 Weaving Women’s Stories
- 5 The Pacific World
- Part II Humans and the Natural World in the Pacific Ocean
- Part III Deep Time: Sources for the Ancient History of the Pacific
- Part IV The Initial Colonization of the Pacific
- Part V The Evolution of Pacific Communities
- Part VI Europe’s Maritime Expansion into the Pacific
- References to Volume I
- Index
2 - The Pacific Region in Deep Time
from Part I - Rethinking the Pacific
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2022
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume I
- Frontispiece
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Preface to Volume I
- Part I Rethinking the Pacific
- 1 Te Moana Nui a Kiwa
- 2 The Pacific Region in Deep Time
- 3 Leviathan’s Families
- 4 Weaving Women’s Stories
- 5 The Pacific World
- Part II Humans and the Natural World in the Pacific Ocean
- Part III Deep Time: Sources for the Ancient History of the Pacific
- Part IV The Initial Colonization of the Pacific
- Part V The Evolution of Pacific Communities
- Part VI Europe’s Maritime Expansion into the Pacific
- References to Volume I
- Index
Summary
This chapter offers a ‘little big history’ of the Pacific Ocean.1,2 It surveys Pacific history on the time scales of geology and biology, and then on the smaller scales that have dominated modern Pacific area studies – those of archaeology, human history, and anthropology. Like Armitage and Bashford’s Pacific Histories, I define ‘the Pacific Region’ broadly, to include both ‘the insular Pacific and the littoral Pacific – the coasts of the Americas and the Asian and Australasian continents’.3
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- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean , pp. 35 - 63Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023