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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of North Carolina Pr
Publication date
April 27, 2015
Pages
303
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781469622576
ISBN-10
1469622572
Dimensions
1.25 by 6.50 by 9.75 in.
Weight
0.60 lbs.
Original list price
$34.95
Other format details
university press
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
Living With Whales | The Other Slavery | The World and All the Things upon It | The Saltwater Frontier | The Sea Is My Country | Native Performers in Wild West Shows | Indigenous London
Living With Whales | The Other Slavery | The World and All the Things upon It | The Saltwater Frontier | The Sea Is My Country | Native Performers in Wild West Shows | Indigenous London
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: In the nineteenth century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living traveling the world's oceans on whaleships. Many were career whalemen, spending twenty years or more at sea. Their labor invigorated economically depressed reservations with vital income and led to complex and surprising connections with other Indigenous peoples, from the islands of the Pacific to the Arctic Ocean. At home, aboard ship, or around the world, Native American seafarers found themselves in a variety of situations, each with distinct racial expectations about who was "Indian" and how "Indians" behaved. Treated by their white neighbors as degraded dependents incapable of taking care of themselves, Native New Englanders nevertheless rose to positions of command at sea. They thereby complicated myths of exploration and expansion that depicted cultural encounters as the meeting of two peoples, whites and Indians.
Highlighting the shifting racial ideologies that shaped the lives of these whalemen, Nancy Shoemaker shows how the category of "Indian" was as fluid as the whalemen were mobile.
Highlighting the shifting racial ideologies that shaped the lives of these whalemen, Nancy Shoemaker shows how the category of "Indian" was as fluid as the whalemen were mobile.
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Hardcover
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from Univ of North Carolina Pr (April 27, 2015)
9781469622576 | details & prices | 303 pages | 6.50 × 9.75 × 1.25 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $34.95
About: In the nineteenth century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living traveling the world's oceans on whaleships.
About: In the nineteenth century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living traveling the world's oceans on whaleships.
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