Sailors and traders: a maritime history of the Pacific peoples
Alastair Couper
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2009]
- Copyright:
- ©2009
More Details
- Table of Contents:
- Nautical Glossary and Abbreviations
- Introduction: A Seafaring Perspective
- 1. Sailors, Myths, and Traditions
- 2. The First Pacific Seafarers
- 3. Settlements, Territories, and Trade
- 4. The Arrival of Foreign Ships
- 5. Pacific Commercial Shipowners
- 6. Under Foreign Sail
- 7. Dangers, Mutinies, and the Law
- 8. Companies, Colonies, and Crewing
- 9. Island Protests and Enterprises
- 10. Contemporary Local and Regional Shipping
- 11. The Global Pacific Seafarer
- Epilogue: Some Contemporary Resonances.
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- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Call Numbers:
- GN662 .C68 2009
- ISBNs:
- 9780824832391 (hard cover, alk. paper)
- Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2008038710
- OCLC Numbers:
- 255013110