Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- About the Editors
- Contributors' Notes
- “Introduction: Charted Routes and New Directions in the Study of Africa's Maritime History”
- “Austronesian Mariners and Early Trans-Indian Ocean Crossings”
- “Eight Hens per Man per Day: Shipwreck Survivors and Pastoral Abundance in Southern Africa”
- “State Control and Regulation of Commerce on the Waterways and Coast of Senegambia, ca. 1500-1800”
- “Swimming, Surfing and Underwater Diving in Early Modern Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora”
- “Rough Sailing: Risks and Opportunities for Immigrant African Maritime Workers in Gabon, ca. 1860-1914”
- “Desertion, Dereliction and Destitution: The Travails of Stranded West African Seamen in the United Kingdom, ca. 1921-1934”
- “‘The White Wife Problem:’ Sex, Race and the Contested Politics of Repatriation to Interwar British West Africa”
- “Sailing Beyond Apartheid: The Social and Political Impact of Seafaring on Coloured South African Sailors”
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Contributors' Notes
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- About the Editors
- Contributors' Notes
- “Introduction: Charted Routes and New Directions in the Study of Africa's Maritime History”
- “Austronesian Mariners and Early Trans-Indian Ocean Crossings”
- “Eight Hens per Man per Day: Shipwreck Survivors and Pastoral Abundance in Southern Africa”
- “State Control and Regulation of Commerce on the Waterways and Coast of Senegambia, ca. 1500-1800”
- “Swimming, Surfing and Underwater Diving in Early Modern Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora”
- “Rough Sailing: Risks and Opportunities for Immigrant African Maritime Workers in Gabon, ca. 1860-1914”
- “Desertion, Dereliction and Destitution: The Travails of Stranded West African Seamen in the United Kingdom, ca. 1921-1934”
- “‘The White Wife Problem:’ Sex, Race and the Contested Politics of Repatriation to Interwar British West Africa”
- “Sailing Beyond Apartheid: The Social and Political Impact of Seafaring on Coloured South African Sailors”
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- Navigating African Maritime History , pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2009