4 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
English explorer and navigator — who made three voyages of discovery to the Pacific, mapping New Zealand, eastern Australia, Hawaii, and the Antarctic, and was the first European to make contact with the Hawaiian islands — killed in Hawaii in 1779.
American historian — former President of Dartmouth College — author of Those Who Have Borne the Battle (on America's combat veterans) — who writes on American military history and veterans.
American historian at Rutgers who wrote Pacific Worlds — a history of the Pacific Ocean region as a connected space — and The Memory of the Modern — bringing Pacific history into the mainstream of world history through an oceanic rather than continental framework.
Matt Matsuda's 2012 history of the Pacific Ocean as a connected world — tracing interactions, migrations, and exchanges across the Pacific from Polynesian settlement through European contact to the modern era.