Sailors and Traders : A Maritime History of the Pacific Peoples /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Couper, A. D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Shipping > Pacific Area > History.
Sailors > Pacific Area > History.
Sea Peoples > Pacific Area > History.
Pacific Islanders > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A seafaring perspective
  • Sailors, myths and traditions
  • The first pacific seafarers
  • Settlements, territories and trade
  • The arrival of foreign ships
  • Pacific commercial shipowners
  • Under foreign sail
  • Dangers, mutinies and the law
  • Companies, colonies and crewing
  • Island protests and enterprises
  • Contemporary local and regional shipping
  • The global pacific seafarer
  • Epilogue: Some contemporary resonances.

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