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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Couper, A. D. (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2008.
Series:Online access: De Gruyter De Gruyter Open Books.
Online access: OAPEN Open Research Library (ORL)
Subjects:
Pacific Islanders > History.
Sea Peoples > Pacific Area > History.
Sailors > Pacific Area > History.
Shipping > Pacific Area > History.
Océaniens > Histoire.
Peuples de la Mer > Pacifique, Région du > Histoire.
Marins > Pacifique, Région du > Histoire.
HISTORY.
Pacific Islanders.
Sailors.
Sea Peoples.
Shipping.
Pacific Area.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.