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- 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 II
- Frontispiece
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Preface to Volume II
- Part VII Rethinking the Pacific
- 32 Climate Change, Rising Seas, and Endangered Island Nations
- 33 Authority, Identity, and Place in the Pacific Ocean and Its Hinterlands, c. 1200 to c. 2000
- 34 Europe’s Other? Academic Discourse on the Pacific as a Cultural Space
- 35 The Phantom Empire
- 36 Blue Continent to Blue Pacific
- Part VIII Approaches, Sources, and Subaltern Histories of the Modern Pacific
- Part IX Culture Contact and the Impact of Pre-colonial European Influences
- Part X The Colonial Era in the Pacific
- Part XI The Pacific Century?
- Part XII Pacific Futures
- References to Volume II
- Index
36 - Blue Continent to Blue Pacific
from Part VII - 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 II
- Frontispiece
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Preface to Volume II
- Part VII Rethinking the Pacific
- 32 Climate Change, Rising Seas, and Endangered Island Nations
- 33 Authority, Identity, and Place in the Pacific Ocean and Its Hinterlands, c. 1200 to c. 2000
- 34 Europe’s Other? Academic Discourse on the Pacific as a Cultural Space
- 35 The Phantom Empire
- 36 Blue Continent to Blue Pacific
- Part VIII Approaches, Sources, and Subaltern Histories of the Modern Pacific
- Part IX Culture Contact and the Impact of Pre-colonial European Influences
- Part X The Colonial Era in the Pacific
- Part XI The Pacific Century?
- Part XII Pacific Futures
- References to Volume II
- Index
Summary
The unveiling of the new Pacific Hall at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu, with its emphasis on an interconnected ‘Blue Continent’, was bold and invigorating. Opened in 2013, it presented the Pacific Ocean as the focus of historical attention in its own right; as an entity, not as a largely empty space whose histories were driven by neighbouring continents. Exhibits and events in the Pacific Hall were collected in, above, and around a central core rich in the histories and technologies of maritime travel. Over it all presided an extraordinary piece of art: Anu‘u Nu‘u ka ‘Ike (‘Learning step by step’). Created by over thirty students and master artists of Indigenous Pacific Island heritage, the mural expresses the ocean’s physical, historical, and spiritual identities.1
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- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean , pp. 132 - 164Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023