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 II
- Frontispiece
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Preface to Volume II
- Part VII Rethinking the Pacific
- Part VIII Approaches, Sources, and Subaltern Histories of the Modern Pacific
- Part IX Culture Contact and the Impact of Pre-colonial European Influences
- 44 The Pacific in the Age of Revolutions
- 45 Disease in Pacific History
- 46 The Culture Concept and Christian Missions in the Pacific
- 47 Trading Nature in the Pacific
- 48 Seaborne Ethnography to the Science of Race, 1521–1850
- Part X The Colonial Era in the Pacific
- Part XI The Pacific Century?
- Part XII Pacific Futures
- References to Volume II
- Index
44 - The Pacific in the Age of Revolutions
from Part IX - Culture Contact and the Impact of Pre-colonial European Influences
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2022
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 II
- Frontispiece
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Preface to Volume II
- Part VII Rethinking the Pacific
- Part VIII Approaches, Sources, and Subaltern Histories of the Modern Pacific
- Part IX Culture Contact and the Impact of Pre-colonial European Influences
- 44 The Pacific in the Age of Revolutions
- 45 Disease in Pacific History
- 46 The Culture Concept and Christian Missions in the Pacific
- 47 Trading Nature in the Pacific
- 48 Seaborne Ethnography to the Science of Race, 1521–1850
- Part X The Colonial Era in the Pacific
- Part XI The Pacific Century?
- Part XII Pacific Futures
- References to Volume II
- Index
Summary
In the age of revolutions, the Pacific was dramatically moulded from a ‘Sea of Islands’ into ‘islands in a far sea’.1 This ocean of dense Indigenous habitation, memory, and connection experienced a violent transition as it was hemmed in by modern formations of empire, knowledge, and culture.
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- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean , pp. 315 - 334Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023