J.R. McNeill
Ashgate
Hardback
416
2001
This volume brings together a set of key articles from the last 30 years pertaining to the environmental history of the Pacific basin. It aims to treat the islands and waters of the Pacific as well as the lands around the Rim from New Zealand to Japan to California to Chile and is the first work of environmental history to take this inclusive view of the Pacific basin. The focus is mainly on recent centuries but as environmental history requires at times the work also takes the very long view of millennia.Several of the articles seek to bring a broad Pacific perspective to bear on their subjects while others use Pacific-basin examples to try to establish broader theoretical points of interest to all who are drawn to the study of the interactions between nature and culture. The book includes a bibliography of Pacific-basin environmental history and an introduction that aims to sketch the contours and possible future directions of the field.
Ashgate
Hardback
416
2001
This volume brings together a set of key articles from the last 30 years pertaining to the environmental history of the Pacific basin. It aims to treat the islands and waters of the Pacific as well as the lands around the Rim from New Zealand to Japan to California to Chile and is the first work of environmental history to take this inclusive view of the Pacific basin. The focus is mainly on recent centuries but as environmental history requires at times the work also takes the very long view of millennia.Several of the articles seek to bring a broad Pacific perspective to bear on their subjects while others use Pacific-basin examples to try to establish broader theoretical points of interest to all who are drawn to the study of the interactions between nature and culture. The book includes a bibliography of Pacific-basin environmental history and an introduction that aims to sketch the contours and possible future directions of the field.