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Defining the Pacific - Opportunities and Constraints (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Defining the Pacific - Opportunities and Constraints (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900
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This volume lays the physical and conceptual groundwork for the
Pacific World series, exploring both the constraints imposed and
the opportunities offered to humanity by the physical environment
of the Pacific region. Organized from the perspectives of "Big
History" and macro-geography, the volume presents a series of major
studies and surveys by authors from a range of disciplines. It
opens with perspectives on the ocean, and closes with questions of
human settlement, diffusion, and trans-Pacific contacts. Geologists
write of the origins of the Pacific, its geological structure, and
the problem of tsunamis; climatologists and oceanographers discuss
the El NiA+/-o Southern Oscillation and the ocean waters;
biologists and biogeographers find patterns in the life of the
Basin - as is shown, all these have their impact on the potential
of the region for human use and settlement. Finally, geographers,
anthropologists, and archaeologists deal with the peopling of the
Pacific islands, the settlement of the Americas, and the incidence
and importance of pre-modern links across the Pacific.
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