Pacific Worlds

by Matt K. Matsuda

Book Overview

Asia, the Pacific Islands and the coasts of the Americas have long been studied separately. This essential single-volume history of the Pacific traces the global interactions and remarkable peoples that have connected these regions with each other and with Europe and the Indian Ocean, for millennia. From ancient canoe navigators, monumental civilisations, pirates and seaborne empires, to the rise of nuclear testing and global warming, Matt Matsuda...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521715660
• ISBN13: 9780521715669
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"