Sailors and traders [electronic resource] : a maritime history of the Pacific peoples / Alastair Couper.
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TextPublication details: Honolulu : University of Hawai�i Press, c2009.Description: xiii, 262 p. : ill., mapsOther title: - Maritime history of the Pacific peoples
- GN662 .C68 2009eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-251) and index.
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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