"'Ocean of Business': Enterprising Voyages and the Geography of Pacific Commerce, 1770-1848" presented by Dr. David Igler, University of California-Irvine
Mon, December 7, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM • GAR 4.100
A workshop presented by Dr. David Igler, Associate Professor, University of California-Irvine.
Open to the public. RSVP required. To reserve your lunch and receive a copy of the pre-circulated paper, please email Courtney Meador by 9 a.m., Friday, Dec. 4.
Dr. David Igler, Associate Professor of History at the University of California-Irvine, has published in the fields of environmental history, the American West, and Pacific History. His most recent publications analyze the emergence of a “Pacific world” during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This current research explores the links between commerce, environment, and cultures and how these connected the American Far West to the Pacific Basin.
His current book project examines how the Pacific came to be a cross-cultural meeting ground in the 1820s, when only a half-century before it was a vast area with disconnected indigenous populations.
