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The Pacific Ocean of Civilizations

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The Pacific Ocean of Civilizations
69.99 €
The Pacific Ocean... The name of the greatest body of water on our planet is very misleading. Magellan was lucky: throughout his voyage in 1520, the ocean was really calm, for which he received the name Mar Pacifico. In the eighteenth century, with the light hand of the French geographer Buache, it became the Great Ocean, but this name did not stick. Still, this ocean is great. Its role in the formation and development of world civilizations and, in general, the entire humanity is undeniable. The history of the "ocean of islands", as the author calls it, is traced in the book from the first voyages of aborigines to the creation and subsequent collapse of colonial empires. The development of the ocean by Europeans, their contacts with the local population not only contributed to the interpenetration of island and Western cultures, but also often changed the course of world history - about this and much more tells Philip Hatfield, head of the Center for North American Studies of the British Library.
"The Pacific. Ocean of Civilizations" continues the series of books by Paulsen Publishing, based on the magnificent illustrative material from the collection of British libraries, as well as museum collections and government archives from around the world.
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