Sailors and traders a maritime history of the Pacific peoples / [electronic resource] :
Maritime history of the Pacific peoples
Alastair Couper.
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2009.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 262 p.) : ill., maps
Description based on print version record.
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.