Table of Contents: Sailors and traders

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Sailors and traders a maritime history of the Pacific peoples /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Couper, A. D.
Format:	Electronic
Language:	English
Published:	Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2009.
Subjects:	Pacific Islanders > History. Sea Peoples > History. > Pacific Area Sailors > History. > Pacific Area Shipping > History. > Pacific Area HISTORY. Electronic books.
Online Access:	View fulltext via EzAccess

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.