Sailors and traders [electronic resource] : a maritime history of the Pacific peoples / Alastair Couper.
By: Couper, A. D.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
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BookPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawai�i Press, c2009Description: xiii, 262 p. : ill., maps.Other title: Maritime history of the Pacific peoples.Subject(s): Pacific Islanders -- History | Sea Peoples -- Pacific Area -- History | Sailors -- Pacific Area -- History | Shipping -- Pacific Area -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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