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Author:   Carina E. Ray ,  Jeremy Rich
Publisher:   International Maritime Economic History Association
Imprint:   International Maritime Economic History Association
Volume:   41
ISBN:  

9780986497315

ISBN 10:   0986497312
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   01 January 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"About the Editors / iii Contributors' Notes / v Carina E. Ray and Jeremy Rich, ""Introduction: Charted Routes and New Directions in the Study of Africa's Maritime History"" / 1 Gwyn Campbell, ""Austronesian Mariners and Early Trans-Indian Ocean Crossings"" / 19 Margaret Hanzimanolis, ""Eight Hens per Man per Day: Shipwreck Survivors and Pastoral Abundance in Southern Africa"" / 33 Ousmane Traor , ""State Control and Regulation of Commerce on the Waterways and Coast of Senegambia, ca. 1500-1800"" / 57 Kevin Dawson, ""Swimming, Surfing and Underwater Diving in Early Modern Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora"" / 81 Jeremy Rich, ""Rough Sailing: Risks and Opportunities for Immigrant African Maritime Workers in Gabon, ca. 1860-1914"" / 117 Ayodeji Olukoju, ""Desertion, Dereliction and Destitution: The Travails of Stranded West African Seamen in the United Kingdom, ca. 1921-1934"" / 139 Carina E. Ray, ""'The White Wife Problem:' Sex, Race and the Contested Politics of Repatriation to Interwar British West Africa"" / 163 Henry Trotter, ""Sailing Beyond Apartheid: The Social and Political Impact of Seafaring on Coloured South African Sailors"" / 189"

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