Sailors and traders : a maritime history of the Pacific peoples / Alastair Couper.
Material type: TextSeries: Online access: De Gruyter De Gruyter Open Books | Online access: OAPEN Open Research Library (ORL)Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 262 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781441619884
- 1441619887
- 9780824864231
- 0824864239
- 9780824869946
- 082486994X
- Maritime history of the Pacific peoples
- 995 22
- GN662 .C68 2009eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-251) and index.
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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