Books in the The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900 series

Examining the history of trans-Pacific rural and agricultural connections, this book shows an agriculturally-oriented Pacific World in the making since the 1500s. It also aims to demonstrate that the historical processes of globalization contained an agrarian dimension in which national spaces were shaped through forces from distant lands.

Beginning with an overview of British exploration in the Pacific Area, this study traces the roots of British attempts to dominate the region through the Imperialism of free trade.

This collection of essays assesses the interrelationship between exploration, empire-building and science in the opening of the Pacific Ocean by Europeans between the early 16th and mid-19th century. Editor from University of Otago, New Zealand.

Seeks to capture the array of images that define Japan's encounters with the Pacific Ocean. The studies selected for inclusion in this volume, along with the introduction, explain how the Pacific Ocean thus nurtured images of both threat and opportunity to the island nation that it surrounds.

Brings together 13 articles which include both classics and lesser known but important works related to the trade and production of textiles in the Pacific region, extending from the tip of Northeast Asia to the other end of South America and Australia.

Examining the use of drugs and alcohol by the peoples of the Pacific, this volume contains papers that re-evaluate both the history of mind-altering substances in the Pacific World and the crucial historical transformations connected with them.

Part of a series dealing with physical and human geography and history of the Pacific region, this collection of writings examines the various aspects of the French presence in the region from the 17th through to the 19th century

The articles collected in this volume cover the Pacific in its entirety. They aim to define the Pacific and its concerns; the geology and geophysics of the Pacific basin; oceanology, climatology and biogeography; and human settlement, diffusion, and early trans-Pacific contacts.

One of the main themes of this study is the fact that Taiwan became Chinese solely as a result of the great transformation of the 17th century. The other key theme is the growth of a great Vietnamese centre of trade after the year 1550.

Takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of religious cultural exchanges around the Pacific in the period 1500-1900, relating these to economic and political development and to the expansion of communication across the area. These articles are grouped in sections dealing with the Islamic period, the Iberian Catholic period, and more.