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Sailors and traders a maritime history of the Pacific peoples

Title: Sailors and traders [electronic resource] : a maritime history of the Pacific peoples / Alastair Couper.
Author: Couper, A. D.
Publication: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2009.

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Description

1 online resource (xiii, 262 p.) : ill., maps.

Uniform Title

Sailors and traders (Online)

Alternative Title

Sailors and traders (Online)
Maritime history of the Pacific peoples

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-251) and index.

Access (note)

Access restricted to authorized users.

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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