...Alessandro Metz; Michael Hardt; Sandro Mezzadra; Arianna Bove In this article, Michael Hardt and Sandro Mezzadra interview Alessandro Metz, social worker and “social” owner of the ship Mare Jonio, which seeks to aid and protect migrants during increasingly perilous Mediterranean Sea crossings. Metz...

...Theodore Ropp The History of the American Sailing Navy: The Ships and Their Development . By Chapelle Howard I. . New York : W. W. Norton and Company , 1949 . Pp. xxiii , 558 . $10.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 408 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...Theodore Ropp Ships, Machinery, and Mossbacks: The Autobiography of a Naval Engineer . By Bowen H. G. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1954 . Pp. x , 397 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 Book Reviews 269 Castro for many illuminating pages...

...Philippe Blouin Preserving the original agreement between the Rotinonhsión:ni (Iroquois) and the first settlers, the Two Row Wampum belt (Teiohá:te) displays two parallel lines, where the original peoples’ canoe and the settlers’ ship are said to sail side by side, suggesting that allied parties...

... on Greenpeace photographs of a Te Whānau-ā-Apanui fishing boat crossing a seismic survey ship contracted to Petrobras in the Raukūmara Basin, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Hawaiian artist Joy Enomoto's Nautilus the Protector woodcut prints, in which a nautilus battles mining infrastructure in the Bismarck Sea...

...Luca Casarini; Arianna Bove Luca Casarini, who has served as “chief of mission” on the Mare Jonio , recounts the experience of sailing on the ship and rescuing migrants in distress. He situates his personal experiences in the context of the current plight of migrants in the Central Mediterranean...

... in the north and the Cape of Good Hope in the south for one thousand years. No subject of the crown, other than the company, was to visit Africa except with the company s permission, and the company was authorized to seize ships and cargo infringing its monopoly. The monopoly was not effective. The company...

... and armor is assumed by ships and nautical gear. A transposition of background and foreground occurs: in the Iliad warfare and weaponry dominate, but ships and seafaring are never far from mind. In the later epic the maritime dimension becomes predominant. Odysseus himself connects 31. See Eliade, Forge...

.... There had already come to the place a number of ship captains with cargoes of miscellaneous goods. These men represented European busi­ ness houses, either as owners or as agents. They came into the Virginia rivers, traded with the inhabitants who were scattered at wide intervals along these rivers, till...

...Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 PACIFIC GADABOUT EDGAR F. SHANNON, JR. THE BILOXI, a light cruiser of the new Cleveland class, was one of the ships of Vice Admiral Mitscher s fast carrier Task Force 38, previously known as Task Force 58. The planes...

... on the waters of the Persian Gulf, that enabled their own movement, assured their primacy, and simultaneously limited the mobility of Iran. Naval and political leaders directly connected the movement of oil—its flow—to the movement of the American military. The arrangement and passage of US ships...

... in need. Such experiences lead us to hope that public support for cruel and unjust policies toward migrants may not last long. But even in the meantime, swimming upstream, against majority opinion, is not impossible. It simply requires a dierent technique and a bit more eort. Launching a Ship...

.... But it is upon the prize cases that some new light may be thrown. II The first admiralty case to come before a Confederate court, was that of Confederate States of America versus Ship A. B. Thompson. It was decided in the District Court for South Carolina, Judge Magrath presiding. The claimants alleged...

... proposed' to turn into Hampton Roads, then crowded with Federal supply ships and trans­ ports. In this supposedly unprotected fold of maritime sheep, the Confederate wolf in woolly clothing would capture and burn as many as possible before the grim shepherd dogs could arrive, and, if luck smiled upon him...

... handed, could make four or five knots an hour. Such a relic of better days carried as an armament a few old guns that nobody wanted to see fired because of doubt as to what would happen, both to the gun crew and to the ship. By the time that the Southerners realized that the English fleet was not theirs...

... into the narrows from the open sea in a mighty host. From their station in the narrowest part of the passage the Greeks attacked them. The crowding of a great multitude of ships within a limited area soon brought confusion to the enemy; then the Greeks dashed into them from every side and completed the disorder...

... by Negroes brought in bondage to the British continental colonies. Negro slaves were among the earliest people to settle within the territory given by Charles II to the lords proprietors of Carolina. Of the three ships which brought the first permanent settlers, one was from the island of Barbados, where one...

... and morals. The route to the South Sea Islands in the days of sailing ships was attended by many hardships and dangers. The Sultana, for example, was wrecked on a coral reef in the So­ ciety Islands, and her crew was forced to live a Robinson Crusoe existence on an uninhabited island. In the early period...

..., both concrete and abstract. He found it first, implicitly and somewhat uncer­ tainly, in the activity, almost brutality, of a sailor s life. Then it came out more clearly in ships, in the English countryside, in animals (particularly horses), in the sea; only occasionally (as in the often-quoted...

..., is The Negro. From The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym to The Blacks of Jean Genet, The Negro has cast a shadow upon our history and imagination. When Poe turned Pym s ship south­ ward he transformed a fantastic sea yam into a racist nightmare. Poe s novel, Leslie Fiedler observed, is surely the first which...