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Nation on board : becoming Nigerian at sea / Lynn Schler.
Lippincott Library HD8039.S42 N557 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schler, Lynn, author.
- Series:
- New African histories series
- New African histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Merchant marine--Nigeria--History.
- Merchant marine.
- Merchant mariners--Nigeria--Social conditions.
- Merchant mariners.
- Merchant mariners--Legal status, laws, etc--Nigeria.
- Nigerian National Shipping Line--History.
- Nigerian National Shipping Line.
- Merchant mariners--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Social conditions.
- History.
- Nigeria.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 241 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- The working lives of Nigerian seamen in the colonial era
- Seamen and the cosmopolitan imaginary
- From citizens of the world to citizens of Nigeria
- The birth of the Nigerian National Shipping Line
- Nigerianizing the sea : cultures of work on NNSL ships
- Seamen in the shadow of the NNSL decline and demise.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-235) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780821422175
- 0821422170
- 9780821422182
- 0821422189
- OCLC:
- 929985390
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