The Palgrave Handbook of Global Oceanic Encounters throughout History

This handbook represents a major landmark of interdisciplinary encounter histories, providing a wide-ranging collection of essays on human and non-human actors on the oceans, seas, beaches, bays and estuaries where cultures and species often meet. Focusing primarily on Pacific, Indian and Australasian histories, contributions cover First Nations accounts of seafaring and Indigenous intermediaries; interactions across oceans; shipwrecks and material culture; and maritime interaction sphere like the Swahili Coast, the Maritime Silk Road, and the Manila Galleon Network. In doing so, it provides a cutting-edge assessment of the vibrant field of oceanic and maritime history, and charts a blueprint for future research in the field.

Section 1: Maps and Images.- 1. Defining Difference and Marking Distance: Indigenous Presence on European Maps of Southern Patagonia in the Early Modern Period - Katherine Parker.- 2. Encounters and Mis-encounters at Cape Horn: Visual Constructions of Actors, Cultures, and Territories - Margarita Alvarado Pérez.- 3. Mapping Time, Charting Empire: Antiquity and Ethnography in Göttingen University s Cook-Forster Collection - Rhiannon Hein.- 4. Most unexpected and most interesting meetings : European Images of Makassans , c.1800-1907 -Jane Lydon.- 5. New Maps from Old: Exploring Historical Accounts and Encounters through Immersive Cartography - Tom Chandler and MunieraDubery.- 6. Inland Seas: Maritime Imagery in the Central Plateau of Groote Eylandt - Annie Clarke and Ursula Frederick.- Section 2: Maritime Technologies and Industries.- 7. Three Centuries of the Shared Trepang Heritage of Indonesia and Australia: Perspectives from the Field - Dedi Supriadi Adhuri.- 8. Saltwater Stories in Rock Art: First Nations Seafarers in an Australian Colonial Survey Ship - Mick de Ruyter, Daryl Wesley and Wendy van Duivenvoorde.- 9. From Perahu to Kapal: Indonesian Response to Modern Boatbuilding Technology - Maurizio Borriello.- 10. Maritime Interaction Spheres of Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Forest and Marine Industries in Northern Australia - Kellie Clayton.- 11. The Prahu and Empire: Rethinking Southeast Asian Seacraft in the Spanish Conquest of the Pacific - Kristie Patricia Flannery.- Section 3 Relationships.- 12. Ten Sailors and Five Men of Distinction: A Meeting in the Southland in 1658 - Liam Benison.- 13. Wrestling with Disconnection: Memories, Food, and Enslavement in the Dutch Indian Ocean Empire - Kathleen Burke.- 14. Russian-Indigenous Encounters on the North Pacific: Kamchatka and the Kuriles, 1720s-1780s -Eva-Maria Stolberg.- 15. Our old people travelled with the Makassans : Yanyuwa Old People and MakassanTrepangers in the Southwest Gulf of Carpentaria - John Bradley, Dinah Norman a-Marrngawi and Mavis Timothy a-Muluwamara.- 16. Our Captain Cook : Indigenous Accounts of Captain Cook s Attempted Landing on Erromango Island, Vanuatu, in 1774 - Uyou Ruth Yapini, Matthew Spriggs, Anna Naupa.- 17. Forging/Forcing Friendship: The Micropolitics of Friend-Making and Violence in Filipino-Spanish Colonial Contact - Arthit Jiamrattanyoo.- 18. Everything That Comes Ashore Is Mine: Shipwrecks and Sovereignties in the Graveyard of the Pacific - Coll Thrush.- Section 4: Objects and Collections.- 19. Taking Collections Litorally: Museum Objects as Sites of Encounter - Daniel Simpson.- 20. Sounding the Pacific: Intercultural Encounters of the US Fish Commission South Seas Expedition - 1899-1900 - Jacqueline Hazen, Chris Urwin, Joshua A. Bell.- 21. Shaped by the Sea: Shaped by Indigenous Knowledge - Matt Poll.- 22. Global Histories, Chinese and Iberian Interactions - Sze Pui Yin.- 23. Fish Encounters and Entangled Knowledges on Menang Country - Tiffany Shellam and Shona Coyne.- 24. Coral Sea Connections: Conceptualising and Exhibiting 3000 Years of Interactions between Aboriginal Australians and New Guinea Melanesians - Ian J. McNiven.- Section 5: Science.- 25. Iberian Encounters with the Austral Lands, 1500-1700 - Stephanie Mawson.- 26. Science, Race, and the Ethnohistory of Encounters in Oceania - Bronwen Douglas.- 27. Mu, Lemuria and the Popularisation of Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Ideas about Vanished Pacific Lands - Andrea Ballesteros.- 28. The Gaze of Science: Dumont d Urville s Expedition in Northern Australia and Makassar in 1839 - Campbell Macknight.- Section 6: Oceanic Multispecies.- 29. Animals and the Overlap of Empires: Early Acclimatisation in Tahiti - Claire Brennan.- 30. Tobacco s Early Modern Ecological, Cultural and Gender Histories - Sus

Lynette Russell is a Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor at Monash University and Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Australia.

David Haworth is Senior Research Officer at the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Australia.

Leonie Stevens is a Research Fellow at the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Australia.

Dr Leigh Penman is a freelance educator and historian, and a former member of Global Encounters Monash team, Australia

Dr Chris Urwin is an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Fellow at Monash University, Australia