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Pacific Studies
Discussions with scholars of the Pacific region about their new books
November 21, 2024
Island
Darwin called the Galápagos archipelago “a little world within itself,” unaffected by humans and set on its own evolutionary path – strange, diverse, …
October 7, 2024
The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838
Economic history has always emphasized the importance of long-distance trade in the emergence of modern financial markets, yet almost nothing is known…
September 1, 2024
Gateway State
One of my talking points when hanging out with my fellow diplomatic historians is the painful absence of scholarship on Hawaii. Too many political his…
August 19, 2024
The Dragon and the Nguzunguzu
Nguzunguzu is the traditional figurehead which was formerly affixed to canoes in the Solomon Islands. In this episode, Julie Yu-Wen Chen talks to Rodo…
August 18, 2024
Tiwi Story
Tiwi Story: Turning History Downside Up (New SouthPress, 2023) is a groundbreaking work of history that spans from Deep Time to the present. Applying …
August 1, 2024
Spice
The spice islands: Specks of land in the Indonesian archipelago that were the exclusive home of cloves, commodities once worth their weight in gold. T…
July 31, 2024
Roots of Power
Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants (Routledge, 2023) tells five stories of plants, people, property, politics, peace, and protec…
July 28, 2024
Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World
Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024) offers a new interpretation of Spanish colonial rule in th…
July 27, 2024
Alternate Currents
In the second half of the twentieth century, Reiki went from an obscure therapy practiced by a few thousand Japanese and Japanese Americans to a globa…
July 27, 2024
Forward without Fear
During Hawai‘i’s territorial period (1900–1959), Native Hawaiians resisted assimilation by refusing to replace Native culture, identity, and history w…
July 23, 2024
The Ocean on Fire
Bombarded with the equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb a day for half a century, Pacific people have long been subjected to man-made cataclysm. Well befo…
July 15, 2024
Sino-Pacific Relations
The 2024 Solomon Islands elections were surprisingly peaceful. The deepening economic inequalities, widespread corruption, rogue demagogues manipulati…
July 14, 2024
Tip of the Spear
In Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Guåhan, 1944–1962 (Cornell University Press, 2023), Dr. Alfred Peredo Flores argues th…
June 18, 2024
21st Century as the Pacific Century
With the ever-greater shift of the balance of global power towards the Pacific region, what does this have implications for the geopolitics of the reg…
June 14, 2024
The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism
Sidney Lu’s The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868-1961 (Cambridge 2019) places the concept of “M…
June 7, 2024
The Price of Empire
The United States was an upside-down British Empire. It had an agrarian economy, few large investors, and no territorial holdings outside of North Ame…
May 19, 2024
Mooring the Global Archive
In Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and Its Migrant Histories (Cambridge UP, 2023), Martin Dusinberre follows the Yamashiro-maru steamship …
April 27, 2024
Conquering the Pacific
The Pacific Ocean is twice the size of the Atlantic, and while humans have been traversing its current-driven maritime highways for thousands of years…
April 2, 2024
The Limits
The most thrilling work yet from the best-selling, prize-winning author of The Newlyweds and Lost and Wanted, a stunning new novel set in French Polyn…
March 24, 2024
Missionary Diplomacy
Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations (Cornell University Press, 2024) illuminates the crucial place of rel…