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Navigating African maritime history /
This book is a collection of essays addressing multiple aspects of African maritime history in attempt to counter the lack of academic research that exists in comparison to other nations and continents, and to assert the value of African topics to the global study of maritime history. Each essay add...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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St. John's, Newfoundland :
International Maritime Economic History Association,
2009.
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| Colección: | Research in maritime history ;
no. 41. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Charted routes and new directions in the study of Africa's maritime history / Carina E. Ray and Jeremy Rich
- Austronesian mariners and early trans-Indian Ocean crossings / Gwyn Campbell
- Eight hens per man per day: shipwreck survivors and pastoral abundance in Southern Africa / Margaret Hanzimanolis
- State control and regulation of commerce on the waterways and Coast of Senegambia, ca. 1500-1800 / Ousmane Traoré
- Swimming, surfing and underwater diving in early modern Atlantic Africa and the African diaspora / Kevin Dawson
- Rough sailing: risks and opportunities for immigrant African maritime workers in Gabon, ca. 1860-1914 / Jeremy Rich
- Desertion, dereliction and destitution: the travails of standed West African seamen in the United Kingdom, ca. 1921-1934 / Ayodeji Olukoju
- "The white wife problem": sex, race and the contested politics of repatriation in interwar British West Africa / Carina E. Ray
- Sailing beyond apartheid: the social and political impact on coloured South African sailors / Henry Trotter.