The Geography, Nature and History of the Tropical Pacific and its Islands

• Main Author: Goldberg, Walter M. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: World Regional Geography Book Series,
• Subjects: Physical geography.; Environment.; Cultural geography.; Climate change.; Emigration and immigration.; Ethnology.; World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions).; Environment Studies.; Cultural Geography.; Climate Change.; Migration.; Cultural Anthropology.

This volume provides an accessible scientific introduction to the historical geography of Tropical Pacific Islands, assessing the environmental and cultural changes they have undergone and how they are affected currently by these shifts and alterations. The book emphasizes the roles of plants, anima...

Table of Contents:

• 1. An Introduction to Tropical Pacific Islands
•  2.Populating the Pacific.- 3. Island Exploration During the Age of Discovery.- 4. Atolls, Islands and the Political Economy of Fertilizer.- 5. The Great Pacific Exchange
•  6.The Impact of Missionaries: Their Role in Shaping Island History and Culture.- 7. Sorting and Reshuffling the Pacific Islands in War and in the Nuclear Age.- 8. Islands in the Age of Global Warming.