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A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching Pacific histories for the first time or for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses. It can also serve those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, as well as teachers who want to incorporate Pacific histories into their world history courses.
List of contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Objectives 1
Part I. Foundations
1. Begin with the State of Our Knowledge 19
2. Secure the Fundamentals: Navigation, Diaspora, Settlement 25
3. Underscore the Connections: Encounters in the Contact Zone 33
4. Review Disputed Legacies and Arguments 51
Part II. Devising Strategies
5. Imperialism as a Teaching Tool 67
6. Anthropology and Ethnology as Teaching Tools 89
7. Conflict as a Teaching Tool 95
8. Identity as a Teaching Tool 105
Part III. Performed Histories
9. Distinguish Representations and Realities 113
10. See the Process of Enacting Knowledge 121
Notes 145
Selected Bibliography 155
Index 161
About the author
Matt K. Matsuda is Professor of History and Academic Dean of the Honors College at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and author of
Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures and
Empire of Love: Histories of France and the Pacific.
Summary
A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching Pacific histories for the first time or for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses. It can also serve those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, as well as teachers who want to incorporate Pacific histories into their world history courses.
