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Sailors and traders : a maritime history of the Pacific peoples
- Title
- Sailors and traders : a maritime history of the Pacific peoples / Alastair Couper.
- Author
- Couper, A. D.
- Publication
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2009.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 262 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Maritime history of the Pacific peoples
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-251) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 09-1899
- ISBN
- 9780824832391 (hard cover : alk. paper)
- 0824832396 (hard cover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008038710
- OCLC
- 255013110
- Author
- Couper, A. D.
- Title
- Sailors and traders : a maritime history of the Pacific peoples / Alastair Couper.
- Imprint
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-251) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-1899