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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
33 - Authority, Identity, and Place in the Pacific Ocean and Its Hinterlands, c. 1200 to c. 2000
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 history of the Pacific Ocean is sometimes imagined as an alternative to continentally defined histories, such as those of the Americas and those of Eurasia. With the island world at its heart, the Pacific is seen as having a history that is fundamentally oceanic in character.1 This history is understood as involving a plurality of places, identities, and systems of authority that are at once independent and interlinked. It is often thought that it is with the advent of industrial modernity in the nineteenth century that this oceanic plurality acquires the character of an integrated whole, a process that entails the subordination of previously autonomous societies to the homogenizing effect of external power, above all to that of colonial empire.2
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- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean , pp. 33 - 69Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023