...Johan Heinsen On early modern ships on the Atlantic Ocean, the sounds that the maritime lower classes produced with their tongues led the captains and officers to consider members of these classes as savage as the colonial others. The argument presented here explores the ship as a world of sound...

... Tarsus in 1954. The main destination of the cruise was the United States. Alongside an exhibition on the ship's deck promoting Turkey, the Tarsus also carried fashion models and musicians, staging performances to introduce the “people of the free world” to the “friendly nation Turkey.” The imaginary...

... at the time of Vietnam, the US military rigorously promoted the technology and helped make the “box” the standard in the shipping industry. This article shows how US military–led containerization belongs to a longer history of state-driven capitalism. The military long played a vital role in promoting US...

... itself out in the wider arena of the empire.2 For most of us, the word "pirate" conjures up images of swash- buckling heroes, of tight wooden ships defiantly flying the Jolly Roger, of fierce men swarming over the gunnels of a hard-won prize, cutlasses clenched between their teeth. Free...

... . Gonzalez Vernadette Vicuña . 2013 . Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai‘i and the Philippines . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Haines Gavin . 2016 . “Tempers Flare in Venice as Angry Protesters Block Cruise Ships.” Telegraph , September 26 . www.telegraph.co.uk...

... have been said to hold the same basic appeal: to enhance the allure and hence the wealth of the nations hosting them. So to understand why in 1934 the foreign- trade zone was embraced as a remedy for friction, it helps to consider how ports worked before the age of the container ship...

... of Europeans allowed to reside within Old Calabar. Until 1891, several hundred European traders, so-called supercargoes (captains of trading vessels) acting as agents of Liverpool financiers, lived on their ships with their mixed European and African crews, paid comey (custom dues) to Old Calabar rulers...

... to colonization (The Last Frontier, 1941), George Washington's role in the war for national independence (The Unvanquished, 1942). America's first professional revolutionary (Citizen Tom Paine, 1943), and freedmen's struggle for full citizen- ship in the Reconstruction South (Freedom...

... antiblack- ness. Through the racialized and gendered production of poverty and criminality, the market functions as a type of prison. If a critical genealogy of the prison leads us back to the coffle, the plantation, the sweatbox, and the slave ship, the market also leads back to slavery’s economic...

... to this leader of the terrorist Irgun, which (to the great embarrassment of the emerging Israeli lead- ership) butchered two hundred fifty Arab civilians in the village of Deir Yassin in 1948. Zionists who may justly be called anti-fascists sunk an Irgun ship containing guns, after independence had...

... chartered the Japanese ship to bring several hundred Sikhs from Hong Kong to British Columbia. He had conceived the enterprise as a direct challenge to the continuous voyage statute, a law requiring immigrants to have arrived directly from their country of origin...

... with the natives: I gave to some of them red caps and to others glass beads, which they hung on their necks, and many other things of slight value, in which they took much pleasure. They came swimming to the ships' boats in which we were, and brought us parrots and cotton threads...

..., geographic location, able- bodiedness—and stressing that every key aspect of gender relations—the relation- ship between the family and the state, the relationship between gender and sexual- ity, and so on—is historically, culturally, and class specific. Everything that looks like a dichotomy—public...

... the quality of the relationship between mill workers and artisans, and to assess the strengths and limits of that relation- ship. From 1790 to approximately 1820, the village of Pawtucket, located on the banks of the Blackstone River and straddling the Rhode...

... encountered on entering Of the People was a sculptural installation representing the seventy-seven-foot outline of a slave ship hold and its bent-over African captives rendered in gray plaster. These fifty figures were designed to put a human face on the Middle Passage and start off the narrative...

... are socialized by the political landscape of the societies in which they reside? This raises the larger question of the social function of artistic production in any society, and the relation- ship of the artist to the state. In the West, the 1960s and 1970s saw the emergence, or reemergence...

... for an American visit. But should this come to pass, we recommend that he travel via the Eagle, a fifty-year-old square-rigged “tall ship” that, according to the recent discovery of George Putz (that’s right), a Connecticut historian, ”had been one of five identical sailing ships commissioned by Nazi...

...- vants of the Map (2002) and Ship Fever (1996), all of them published by W. W. Norton. While the short stories span two centuries, several of them, as well as the novel, take place in the middle of the nineteenth century, where Barrett tells tales of early...