Navigating African maritime history /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Oxford Academic
Other Authors:	Ray, Carina E. (Editor), Rich, Jeremy (Jeremy McMaster) (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	St. John's, Newfoundland : International Maritime Economic History Association, 2009.
Series:	Research in maritime history ; no. 41.
Subjects:	Shipping > Africa > History. Navigation > Africa > History. Sailors > Africa > History. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Commerce. Navigation. Sailors. Shipping. Africa. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Charted routes and new directions in the study of Africa's maritime history / Carina E. Ray and Jeremy Rich
Austronesian mariners and early trans-Indian Ocean crossings / Gwyn Campbell
Eight hens per man per day: shipwreck survivors and pastoral abundance in Southern Africa / Margaret Hanzimanolis
State control and regulation of commerce on the waterways and Coast of Senegambia, ca. 1500-1800 / Ousmane Traoré
Swimming, surfing and underwater diving in early modern Atlantic Africa and the African diaspora / Kevin Dawson
Rough sailing: risks and opportunities for immigrant African maritime workers in Gabon, ca. 1860-1914 / Jeremy Rich
Desertion, dereliction and destitution: the travails of standed West African seamen in the United Kingdom, ca. 1921-1934 / Ayodeji Olukoju
"The white wife problem": sex, race and the contested politics of repatriation in interwar British West Africa / Carina E. Ray
Sailing beyond apartheid: the social and political impact on coloured South African sailors / Henry Trotter.