Liberty on the Waterfront American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution

Name: Liberty on the Waterfront American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution
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ISBN: 9780812219937

ISBN-10: 0812219937

ISBN-13: 9780812219937

Edition: 2004

Authors: Paul A. Gilje

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Through careful research and colorful accounts, historian Paul A. Gilje discovers what liberty meant to an important group of common men in American society, those who lived and worked on the waterfront and aboard ships. In the process he reveals that the idealized vision of liberty associated with the Founding Fathers had a much more immediate and complex meaning than previously thought.In Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution, life aboard warships, merchantmen, and whalers, as well as the interactions of mariners and others on shore, is recreated in absorbing detail. Describing the important contributions of sailors to the resistance movement…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 3/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Preface



Ashore And Afloat



The Sweets of Liberty



The Maid I Left Behind Me



A Sailor Ever Loves to Be in Motion



Revolution



The Sons of Neptune



Brave Republicans of the Ocean



Free Trade and Sailors' Rights



Legacy



Proper Objects of Christian Compassion



The Ark of the Liberties of the World


Epilogue


Glossary


Notes


Index


Acknowledgments