Published in late December 2022, ‘The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islands’ vols. 1+2 [ISBN 9781316510407] is a comprehensive cultural history of the Pacific Islands region written from a multitude of perspectives and covering deep time histories up to the present day.
Professor Dvorak’s peer-reviewed essay, “The Phantom Empire: Japan in Oceans and Oceania in Japan from the 1890s Onward” [chapter 35, pp 98-131] is an attempt to humanize the often abstract and vague history of Japan-Pacific entanglement in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Accompanied by numerous essays by other experts on the region, this book is now available worldwide through Cambridge University Press, with further information available here.
