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List of illustrations | p. vii |
List of maps | p. xiii |
Acknowledgments | p. xiv |
Introduction: Encircling the ocean | p. 1 |
Civilization without a center | p. 9 |
Trading rings and tidal empires | p. 23 |
Straits, sultans, and treasure fleets | p. 37 |
Conquered colonies and Iberian ambitions | p. 49 |
Island encounters and the Spanish lake | p. 64 |
Sea changes and Spice Islands | p. 74 |
Samurai, priests, and potentates | p. 88 |
Pirates and raiders of the Eastern seas | p. 103 |
Asia, America, and the age of the galleons | p. 114 |
Navigators of Polynesia and paradise | p. 127 |
Gods and sky piercers | p. 144 |
Extremities of the Great Southern Continent | p. 161 |
The world that Canton made | p. 176 |
Hags, treaties, and gunboats | p. 197 |
Migrations, plantations, and the people trade | p. 216 |
Imperial destinies on foreign shores | p. 233 |
Traditions of engagement and ethnography | p. 256 |
War stories from the Pacific theater | p. 275 |
Prophets and rebels of decolonization | p. 293 |
Critical mass for the earth and ocean | p. 315 |
Specters of memory, agents of development | p. 335 |
Repairing legacies, claiming histories | p. 355 |
Afterword: World heritage | p. 375 |
Notes | p. 379 |
Index | p. 413 |
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