Environmental History in the Pacific World: The Pacific World Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900

This volume brings together a set of key articles from the 1970s, 80s and 90s pertaining to the environmental history of the Pacific basin. It aims to treat the islands and waters of the Pacific as well as the lands around the Rim, from New Zealand to Japan, to California and Chile, and takes an inclusive views of the Pacific basin. The focus is mainly on recent centuries but, as environmental history requires, at times takes the very long view of millennia. Several of the articles seek to bring a broad Pacific perspective to bear on their subjects, while others use Pacific-basin examples to try to establish braoder theoretical points of interest to all who are drawn to the study of the interactions between nature and culture. The book includes a bibliography of Pacific-basin environmental history and an introduction that aims to sketch the contours and possible future directions of the field.