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Lascars and Indian Ocean Seafaring, 1780-1860: Shipboard Life, Unrest and Mutiny
Aaron Jaffer
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Description for Lascars and Indian Ocean Seafaring, 1780-1860: Shipboard Life, Unrest and Mutiny
Hardback. Cases of mutiny and other forms of protest are used to reveal full and interesting details of lascar shipboard life. Series: Worlds of the East India Company. Num Pages: 254 pages, 13 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QSN; 3JF; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 586.
Shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's 2016 Gladstone Prize. Lascars were seamen from the Indian subcontinent and other areas of the Indian Ocean region who were employed aboard European ships from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. They experienced difficult working conditions and came from a wide variety of ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds, which created considerable scope for friction between them and their European officers. This book, based on extensive original research, examines the role of lascars employed aboard country ships, East Indiamen and other British sailing vessels. The focus is on protest in ... Read more
Shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's 2016 Gladstone Prize. Lascars were seamen from the Indian subcontinent and other areas of the Indian Ocean region who were employed aboard European ships from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. They experienced difficult working conditions and came from a wide variety of ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds, which created considerable scope for friction between them and their European officers. This book, based on extensive original research, examines the role of lascars employed aboard country ships, East Indiamen and other British sailing vessels. The focus is on protest in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783270385
SKU
V9781783270385
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
Reviews for Lascars and Indian Ocean Seafaring, 1780-1860: Shipboard Life, Unrest and Mutiny
Fascinating... Jaffer writes very well indeed, and this book is in many ways an exemplary social history.... Well written, historiographically astute, empirically thorough and showing a real eye for detail, this study should remain a leading work on lascar life and mutiny for a long time. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW [S]crupulously documented . Jaffer is careful in ... Read more