This volume offers a systematic account of the effects of globalization on the shipping industry and seafarers' lives. (Midwest).
"This volume offers a systematic account of the effects of globalization on the shipping industry and seafarers lives. The seafarers' labour market is changing rapidly and this study discusses the challenges encountered in recruitment practices, trade unions and collective barga…
"Examines how storytelling and rumour among the lower classes shaped antagonisms and struggles for agency in the early modern Atlantic world, using a case study from the Danish Empire."--Provided by publisher.
"Examines how storytelling and rumour among the lower classes shaped antagonisms and struggles for agency in the early modern Atlantic world, using a case study from the Danish Empire."--Provided by publisher.
"Examines how storytelling and rumour among the lower classes shaped antagonisms and struggles for agency in the early modern Atlantic world, using a case study from the Danish Empire." ... Provided by publisher.
"Examines how storytelling and rumour among the lower classes shaped antagonisms and struggles for agency in the early modern Atlantic world, using a case study from the Danish Empire."--Provided by publisher.
Kiwis* at war 1939-40 & earlier
"This interpretive biography of Matthew Calbraith Perry - the first to appear in well over thirty years - offers a balanced assessment of the commodore's long and varied career as one of the U.S. Navy's preeminent officers of the antebellum era. Best remembered for leading a nav…
"This interpretive biography of Matthew Calbraith Perry - the first to appear in well over thirty years - offers a balanced assessment of the commodore's long and varied career as one of the U.S. Navy's preeminent officers of the antebellum era. Best remembered for leading a nav…
U.S. Navy ships were made up of many unexpected jobs during World War II. Traditional war histories say little about sailors who rarely saw direct combat below active war decks but instead worked skilled jobs. Specialized sailors were often unseen as they worked below the waterl…
