Civilization without a center
Trading rings and tidal empires
Straits, sultans and treasure fleets
Conquered colonies and Iberian ambitions
Island encounters and the Spanish lake
Sea changes and spice islands
Samurai, priests, and potentates
Pirates and raiders of the eastern seas
Asia, America, and the age of the galleon
Navigators of Polynesia and paradise
Extremities of the Great Southern Continent
The world that Canton made
Flags, treaties, and gunboats
Migrations, plantations, and the people trade
Imperial destinies on foreign shores
Traditions of engagement and ethnography
War stories from the Pacific theater
Prophets and rebels of decolonization
Critical mass for the earth and ocean
Specters of memory, agents of development
Repairing legacies, claiming histories
