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Historical Archaeology of Early Modern Colonialism in Asia-Pacific, Volume IIThe Asia-Pacific Region\nAuthor(s): Mara Cruz Berrocal, Cheng-hwa Tsang\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University Press of Florida, United States\nImprint: University Press of Florida\nISBN-13: 9780813054766, 978-0813054766\nSynopsis\nIn the volume The Southwest Pacific and Oceanian Regions, case studies from Alofi, Vanuatu, the Marianas, Hawaii, Guam, and Taiwan compare the development of colonialism across different islands. Contributors discuss human settlement before the arrival of Dutch, French, British, and Spanish explorers, tracing major exchange routes that were active as early as the tenth century. They highlight rarely examined sixteenth- and seventeenth-century encounters between indigenous populations and Europeans and draw attention to how cross-cultural interaction impacted the local peoples of Oceania.\n\nThe volume The Asia-Pacific Region looks at colonialism in the Philippines, China, Japan,.