Format:
Online-Ressource (285 p)
ISBN:
9780801452338
Series Statement:
United States in the World
Content:
Brian Rouleau argues that because of their ubiquity in foreign ports, American sailors were the principal agents of overseas foreign relations in the early republic.
Content:
With Sails Whitening Every Sea -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Born to Rule the Seas" -- 1. Schoolhouses Afloat -- 2. Jim Crow Girdles the Globe -- 3. Maritime Destiny as Manifest Destiny -- 4. A Maritime Empire of Moral Depravity -- 5. An Intimate History of Early America's Maritime Empire -- 6. Making Do at the Margins of Maritime Empire -- Epilogue: Out of the Sailor's Den, into the Tourist Trap -- Notes -- Index.
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Description based upon print version of record
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""With Sails Whitening Every Sea""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: “Born to Rule the Seas�""; ""1. Schoolhouses Afloat""; ""2. Jim Crow Girdles the Globe""; ""3. Maritime Destiny as Manifest Destiny""; ""4. A Maritime Empire of Moral Depravity""; ""5. An Intimate History of Early America�s Maritime Empire""; ""6. Making Do at the Margins of Maritime Empire""; ""Epilogue: Out of the Sailor�s Den, into the Tourist Trap""; ""Notes""; ""Index""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801455087
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801452338
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe With Sails Whitening Every Sea : Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire
Language:
English
Keywords:
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