The Pacific.

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  • Author(s): Matsuda, Matt K.
  • Source:
    American Historical Review. Jun2006, Vol. 111 Issue 3, p758-780. 23p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      GEOGRAPHIC boundaries; GEOGRAPHY; ISLANDS; HISTORY; OCEAN
    • Subject Terms:
      PACIFIC Ocean
    • Abstract:
      The article analyzes the boundary issues associated with studying Pacific Ocean history. To suggest history drawn from a complex set of boundaries, nested temporalities and geographies requires focus. The approach is to emphasize small islands, large seas and multiple transits--not to concentrate on the continental and economic Rim powers of East and Southeast Asia and the Americas to define the Pacific, but to propose an oceanic history much more located in thinking outward from Islanders and local cultures.