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Pacific Studies
Discussions with scholars of the Pacific region about their new books
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…
February 25, 2024
Of Love and War
Between 1942 and 1945 more than two million servicemen occupied the southern Pacific theater, the majority of whom were Americans in service with the …
February 11, 2024
How to Hide an Empire
“Is America an Empire?” is a popular question for pundits and historians, likely because it sets off such a provocative debate. All too often, however…
February 2, 2024
Kiribati in the Chinese Pacific
Is Kiribati in the American lake, Indo-Pacific or Chinese Pacific? In this Episode, Julie Yu-Wen Chen talks to Rodolfo Maggio, a senior researcher at …
January 19, 2024
Reckoning with Restorative Justice
In Reckoning with Restorative Justice Hawaii Women's Prison Writing (Duke University Press, 2023), Dr. Leanne Trapedo Sims explores the experiences of…
January 10, 2024
The Far Land
In 1808, an American merchant ship happened upon an uncharted island in the South Pacific and unwittingly solved the biggest nautical mystery of the e…
December 26, 2023
The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Jeremy Yellen’s The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War (Cornell University Press, 2019) is a challenging transnat…
October 2, 2023
A Brief History of the Pacific
Jeremy Black's A Brief History of the Pacific: The Great Ocean (Robinson, 2023) succeeds in examining both the indigenous presence on ocean's islands …
September 28, 2023
Blood and Dirt
Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard-labour men guarded by other men with guns. M…
September 9, 2023
Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pacific
How does Robert Louis Stevenson’s engagement with Pacific Islands cultures demonstrate processes of inculturation and the transformation of global C…
September 7, 2023
Making Mala
Malaita is one of the major islands in the Solomons Archipelago and has the largest population in the Solomon Islands nation. Its people have an undes…