Name: Coast to Coast
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Coast to Coast

Case Histories of Modern Pacific Crossings

Edited By: Prue Ahrens, Chris Dixon

£34.99

Histories of the Pacific are stories of contact and connection. Coast to Coast explores the networks of modernity that connected the peoples of the Pacific, Australia and North America through new transportation and communication from the mid-nineteenth century.

From the beginnings of human settlement through to the Cook voyages and beyond, histories of ‘the Pacific’ are stories of contact and connection. This vast…

From the beginnings of human settlement through to the Cook voyages and beyond, histories of ‘the Pacific’ are stories of contact and connection. This vast region can be charted through histories of encounter between the diverse peoples of the Pacific,the Pacific Rim and the wider world.

Coast to Coast explores the networks of modernity that connected the various peoples of the Pacific,Australia and North America as new means of transportation, distribution and communication developed from the mid-nineteenth century.

Dr Prue Ahrens is a Lecturer in Art History and member of the University of Queensland’s Cultural History Project. She has published widely on colonial histories and has curated two international exhibitions of Pacifc War photography. Her current research focuses on colonial modernity in Euro-American art of the Pacific region.

Associate Professor Chris Dixon is a Reader in History and Coordinator of the University of Queensland’s Cultural History Project. He has published widely in the field of American history, has served as President of the International Society for Cultural History, and is currently President of the Australian-New Zealand American Studies Association. His current research focuses on the cultural history of the Pacific War, and on the contested legacies of the Vietnam War.