Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Islands in the Making of an Atlantic Oceania, 1500 –1800 21
6. 1. Vessels of Exchange: The Global Shipwright in the Pacifi 38
7. 3. Maritime Ideologies and Ethnic Anomalies: Sea Space and the Structure of Subalternity in the Southeast Asian Littoral 53
8. 4. The Organization of Oceanic Empires The Iberian World in the Habsburg Period 71
9. 5. The Ottoman “Discovery” of the Indian Ocean in the Sixteenth Century 87
10. 6. Lines of Plunder or Crucible of Modernity? The Legal Geography of the English-Speaking Atlantic, 1660-1825 105
11. 7. Transgressive Exchange Circumventing Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Commercial Restrictions, or The Discount of Monte Christi 121
12. Sociologies 135
13. 8. “Tavern of the Seas”? The Cape of Good Hope as an Oceanic Crossroads during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 137
14. 9. That Turbulent Soil Seafarers, the “Black Atlantic,” and Afro-Caribbean Identity 153
15. 10. Race, Migration, and Port-City Radicalism: West Indian Longshoremen and the Politics of Empire, 1880-1920 169
16. 11. South Asian Seafarers and Their Worlds: c. 1870-1930s 186
17. Transgressors 203
18. 12. Marking Water Piracy and Property in the Premodern West 205
19. 13. With the Sea as Their Domain Pirates and Maritime Lordship in Medieval Japan 221
20. 14. The Pirate and the Gallows An Atlantic Theater of Terror and Resistance 239
21. Contributors 251
22. Index 255