Roving Mariners - Australian Aboriginal Whalers and Sealers in the Southern Oceans, 1790-1870 (Hardcover)

For most Australian Aboriginal people, the impact of colonialism was blunt dispossession, dislocation, disease, murder, and missionization. Yet there is another story of Australian history that has remained untold, a story of enterprise and entrepreneurship, of Aboriginal people seizing the opportunity to profit from life at sea as whalers and sealers. In some cases participation was voluntary; in others it was more invidious and involved kidnapping and trade in women. In many cases, the individuals maintained and exercised a degree of personal autonomy and agency within their new circumstances. This book explores some of their lives and adventures by analyzing archival records of maritime industry, captains logs, ships records, and the journals of the sailors themselves, among other artifacts. Much of what is known about this period comes from the writings of Herman Melville, and in this book Melville s whaling novels act as a prism through which relations aboard ships are understood. Drawing on both history and literature, Roving Mariners provides a comprehensive history of Australian Aboriginal whaling and sealing."

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	SUNY series, Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building
Release date:	December 2012
First published:	December 2012
Authors:	Lynette Russell
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	235
ISBN-13:	978-1-4384-4423-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4384-4423-0
Barcode:	9781438444239

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