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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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Liverpool University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Research in Maritime History LUP.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About the Editors; Contributors' Notes; Introduction: Charted Routes and New Directions in the Study of Africa's Maritime History; Austronesian Mariners and Early Trans-Indian Ocean Crossings; Eight Hens per Man per Day: Shipwreck Survivors and Pastoral Abundance in Southern Africa; State Control and Regulation of Commerce on the Waterways and Coast of Senegambia, ca. 1500-1800; Swimming, Surfing and Underwater Diving in Early Modern Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora.
- Rough Sailing: Risks and Opportunities for Immigrant African Maritime Workers in Gabon, ca. 1860-1914Desertion, Dereliction and Destitution: The Travails of Stranded West African Seamen in the United Kingdom, ca. 1921-1934
- 'The White Wife Problem: ' Sex, Race and the Contested Politics of Repatriation to Interwar British West Africa
- Sailing Beyond Apartheid: The Social and Political Impact of Seafaring on Coloured South African Sailors.