Sailors and Traders A Maritime History of the Pacific Peoples
Written by a senior scholar and master mariner, Sailors and Traders is the first comprehensive account of the maritime peoples of the Pacific. It focuses on the sailors who led the exploration and settlement of the islands and New Zealand and their seagoing descendants, providing along the way new m...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press
[2008]
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009438742506719 |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Nautical Glossary and Abbreviations
- Introduction: A Seafaring Perspective
- Chapter one. Sailors, Myths, and Traditions
- Chapter two. The First Pacific Seafarers
- Chapter three. Settlements, Territories, and Trade
- Chapter four. The Arrival of Foreign Ships
- Chapter five. Pacific Commercial Shipowners
- Chapter six. Under Foreign Sail
- Chapter seven. Dangers, Mutinies, and the Law
- Chapter eight. Companies, Colonies, and Crewing
- Chapter nine. Island Protests and Enterprises
- Chapter ten. Contemporary Local and Regional Shipping
- Chapter eleven. The Global Pacific Seafarer
- Epilogue: Some Contemporary Resonances
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
