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Lascars and Indian Ocean seafaring, 1780-1860 : shipboard life, unrest and mutiny /
Lascars were seamen from the Indian subcontinent and other areas of the Indian Ocean region who were employed aboard European ships from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. They experienced difficult working conditions and came from a wide variety of ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK :
The Boydell Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Worlds of the East India Company ;
v. 12. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Lascars ashore and afloat
- Motley crews
- What is 'mutiny'?
- Reconstructing shipboard life
- 1. Causes of Mutiny
- Abusive officers
- Welfare and wages
- Religious issues
- 2. Mutiny and Protest
- Non-mutinous forms of protest
- Ceremonies, festivals and demonstrations
- Collective refusals to work
- Attacks on officers
- 3. The Role of Intermediaries
- Spheres of responsibility
- Serangs, tindals and shipboard protest
- Manipulating mutiny
- 4. Seizing the Ship
- Reading crew testimony
- White mutineers
- Mutineer regimes
- Women aboard commandeered vessels
- 5. Mutiny, Politics and Diplomacy
- Staging mutiny
- Mutineers, chiefs and rajahs
- Apprehending mutineers
- Punishing mutineers
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Selected shipboard uprisings involving lascar crews
- Bibliography
- Index.