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Author:

Hooper, Jane, 1981- author.

Title:

Yankees in the Indian Ocean : American commerce and whaling, 1786-1860 / Jane Hooper.

Publisher:

Ohio University Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

viii, 247 pages : map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

1700-1899
Whaling--United States--History--18th century.
Whaling--United States--History--19th century.
Whaling--Social aspects--Indian Ocean Region.
Americans--Indian Ocean Region--History--18th century.
Americans--Indian Ocean Region--History--19th century.
Americans
Commerce
Whaling
Whaling--Social aspects
United States--Commerce--Indian Ocean Region.
Indian Ocean Region--Commerce--United States.
Indian Ocean Region
United States
History

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-239) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : "15000 miles from our native home" -- Early excursions -- Yankees in Mahajanga, Madagascar -- Whalers in Saint Augustin Bay -- Sailor tourism -- Provisioning islands and ecological impacts -- American illegal slaving -- Conclusion. Fourth of July and global rites of state.

Summary:

"This unprecedented study of nineteenth-century American merchant and whaling activity in the Indian Ocean shows how it shaped later US imperial incursions in the Pacific and Caribbean. Sailors' journals and other primary sources reveal American influence on the period's global commerce, illegal slaving, and environmental degradation."-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Indian Ocean studies series

ISBN:

9780821425084
0821425080

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1319691856

LCCN:

2022018913

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)