TY - BOOK AU - Matsuda,Matt,K TI - Pacific worlds: a history of seas, peoples, and cultures SN - 0521887631 U1 - 995 PY - 2012/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Pacífico (Región) KW - Civilización KW - Historia N1 - Incluye bibliografía; Introduction: Encircling the ocean -- Civilization without a center -- Trading rings and tidal empires -- Straits, sultans and treasure fleets -- Conquered colonies and Iberian ambitions -- Island encounters and the Spanish lake -- Sea changes and spice islands -- Samurai, priests, and potentates -- Pirates and raiders of the eastern seas -- Asia, America, and the age of the galleons -- Navigators of Polynesia and paradise -- Gods and sky piercers -- Extremities of the Great Southern Continent -- The world that Canton made -- Flags, treaties, and gunboats -- Migrations, plantations, and the people trade -- Imperial destinies on foreign shores -- Traditions of engagement and ethnography -- War stories from the Pacific theater -- Prophets and rebels of decolonization -- Critical mass for the earth and ocean -- Specters of memory, agents of development -- Repairing legacies, claiming histories -- Afterword: World heritage ER -