Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early 20th Century by Ravi Ahuja

Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early 20th Century

Ravi Ahuja

272 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history politics
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When eighty-seven passengers and crew died in the shipwreck of the Royal Mail ship Egypt in 1922, the accident gave rise to a racist international press campaign against the employment of Indian seafarers, such as those who made up most of the shi...

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