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Zusatztext David Igler's The Great Ocean is a majestic contribution to the globalizing of American history, and an original, environmentally-informed peregrination around North and South America, Oceania, and Asia. Igler follows traders and merchants, epidemic plagues, the slaughter and near decimation of marine mammals, captives and hostages, and the nineteenth-century articulation of a truly Pacific-based natural history of geology, oceanography, climatology, and American empire. It is an allusive work, engaging, richly detailed, and full of compelling stories that change our understanding of life across generations, in and around the world's greatest ocean. Informationen zum Autor David Igler is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. His books include Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920 and The Human Tradition in California. Klappentext The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly endless continental shorelines. But with the voyages of Captain James Cook, global attention turned to the Pacific, and European and American dreams of scientific exploration, trade, and empire grew dramatically. By the time of the California gold rush, the Pacific's many shores were fully integrated into world markets-and world consciousness. Zusammenfassung A groundbreaking and lyrically written work that explores the world of the Pacific Ocean. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Ocean Worlds 1. Seas of Commerce 2. Disease, Sex, and Indigenous Depopulation 3. Hostages and Captives 4. The Great Hunt 5. Naturalists and Natives in the Great Ocean 6. Assembling the Pacific Conclusion: When East Became West Notes Bibliography Index
