A Foreign Voyage - Pacific Maritime Labour Identity, 1840-1890
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A Foreign Voyage - Pacific Maritime Labour Identity, 1840-1890

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eBook - PDF

A Foreign Voyage - Pacific Maritime Labour Identity, 1840-1890

About this book

JOHN GRIDER joined the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice at the University of the Free State as a Research Fellow in November 2015. He recently completed this captivating project, which investigates the complex interplay between gender, class and race sourced from the narratives of men who found themselves working in the transforming Pacific maritime industry during the mid-nineteenth century.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Imprint Page
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Acknowlegements
  7. Maps
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1 - The Atlantic origins of Pacific maritime identity
  10. Chapter 2 - Sailing in the Pacific
  11. Chapter 3 - The role of Pacific Islanders in the maritime labour community
  12. Chapter 4 - Asian participation in the Pacific maritime community
  13. Chapter 5 - The Impact of steam power on the Pacific maritime community
  14. Conclusion - The creation of a new maritime identity
  15. Pacific shipwrecks and disappearances, 1810-1873
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. Back Cover Page