[PDF.75ot] The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush

The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush

[PDF.my71] The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush

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 | #298068 in Books |  2013-04-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.40 x1.10 x9.30l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

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||11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| Fantastic book!|By Stevew|Igler takes the reader on a fascinating journey, as he invites us to consider the ocean as the starting point for analyzing cultures and peoples. The land is on the periphery of a new way of seeing history and cultural development. The American West is actually the Pacific East in this construct! We meet fabulous characters - ruffians, explorers,| ||"Among the numerous accomplishments of this impressive book, the most striking may be its achievement of extending history from its usual terrestrial focus to the ocean. David Igler's The Great Ocean joins a growing list of histories of ocean basins

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 w...

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