Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush - Paperback
by David Igler
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190498757ISBN-10:190498757UPC:9780190498757Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:World, Oceania, United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCQ6XPCFRK
Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190498757ISBN-10:190498757UPC:9780190498757Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:World, Oceania, United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCQ6XPCFRK
David Igler is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. His books include Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920 and The Human Tradition in California.
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