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Sailors and traders : a maritime history of the Pacific peoples / Alastair Couper.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: 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
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781441619884
  • 1441619887
  • 9780824864231
  • 0824864239
  • 9780824869946
  • 082486994X
Other title:
  • Maritime history of the Pacific peoples
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sailors and traders.DDC classification:
  • 995 22
LOC classification:
  • GN662 .C68 2009eb
Online resources:
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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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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