Introduction Environmental Histories of the Pacific World

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Map of the Pacific World ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Introduction Environmental Histories of the Pacific World 1
6. 1 Long-Distance Animal Migration and the Creation of a Pacific World: A History in Three Species 11
7. 2 Many Diasporas: People, Nature, and Movement in Pacific History 30
8. 3 Chinese Resource Frontiers, Environmental Change, and Entrepreneurship in the South Pacific, 1790s–1920s 47
9. 4 The Third Vector: Pacific Pathogens, Colonial Disease Ecologies, and Native American Epidemics North of Mexico 68
10. 5 Sentiment and Gore: Whaling the Pacific World 86
11. 6 Changes on the Plantation: An Environmental History of Colonial Samoa 100
12. 7 “One Extensive Garden”? Citrus Schemes and Land Use in the Cook Islands, 1900–1970 117
13. 8 Settler-Colonialism, Ecology, and Expropriation of Ainu Mosir A Transnational Perspective 135
14. 9 Pearl of the Empire Conservation, Commerce, and Science in the Tuamotu Archipelago 154
15. 10 From Boki’s Beans to Kona Coffee The ‘Ōiwi (Native) Roots of an Exotic Species 168
16. 11 Maunalua: Shifting Nomenclatures and Spatial Reconfiguration in Hawaii Kai 185
17. 12 Bait and Switch: Tuna Wars, Territorial Seas, and the Eco-geography of the Eastern Tropical Pacific, 1931–1982 209
18. 13 Wintering in the South: Birds, Place, and Flows 229
19. 14 Bravo for the Pacific: Nuclear Testing, Ecosystem Ecology, and the Emergence of Direct Action Environmentalism 241
20. 15 A Pacific Anthropocene 257
21. About the Contributors 279
22. Index 285