S. 11. 1. – European Shipbuilding and Ship Repairs Overseas: Theoretical Approaches and the Cases of Africa and the Pacific (Part 1)

Chair: Cátia Antunes
Discussant: Matthias van Rossum

• Catia Antunes (Leiden University) – Theoretical Insights into Overseas Shipbuilding and Ship Repairs
• Filipa Ribeiro da Silva (International Institute of Social History) – European and African Shipbuilding and Repair in Precolonial Western Africa: An entangled history of Challenges and Strategies
• Ivan Valdez Bubnov (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) – The Concepts of Ton and Tonnage (tonelaje y tonelada) in the Spanish Pacific: a Technological Interpretation of the Manila-Acapulco Galleons