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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Editor's Introduction -- 1 Ploughshares into Swords: The Royal Navy and Merchant Marine Auxiliaries in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 2 Reinforcements and Supplies from Overseas: British Strategic Sealift in the First World War -- 3 Opportunity vs Control: The Diplomacy of Japanese Shipping in the First World War -- 4 The Royal Navy and Inter-war Plans for War against Japan: The Problem of Oil Supply -- 5 American and British Merchant Shipping: Competiton and Preparation, 1933-39 -- 6 Maritime Powers in Transition: Britain's Shipping Capacity Crisis and the Mobilization of Neutral American Power, 1940-41 -- 7 To Market or to War? NATO Shipping Pools and the Demise of the Canadian Merchant Marine -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

The introduction of the steamships on a large scale in the late 19th century saw African and Asian sailors becoming a central component of the workforce of the British merchant marine. This development was met with considerable resistance from British seamen who saw these workers as a cheap labour force that would undermine their established position. This article interprets the steam empire as a set of overlapping webs, comprising the shipping companies, British diasporic labour and Indian Ocean seafarers. It traces how a racialized politics was generated within these webs, and the major conflicts to which this gave rise.

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