1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452374403321

Autore

Gilje Paul A. <1951->

Titolo

Liberty on the waterfront [[electronic resource] ] : American maritime culture in the Age of Revolution / / Paul A. Gilje

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, PA, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2004

ISBN

1-283-89073-9

0-8122-0202-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (359 p.)

Collana

Early American studies

Disciplina

305.93875097

Soggetti

Sailors - United States - History - 18th century

Sailors - United States - History - 19th century

Seafaring life - United States - History - 18th century

Seafaring life - United States - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

United States History, Naval To 1900

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-323) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I. ASHORE AND AFLOAT -- 1 The Sweets of Liberty -- 2 The Maid I Left Behind Me -- 3 A Sailor Ever Loves to Be in Motion -- PART II. REVOLUTION -- 4 The Sons of Neptune -- 5 Brave Republicans of the Ocean -- 6 Free Trade and Sailors' Rights -- PART III. LEGACY -- 7 Proper Objects of Christian Compassion -- 8 The Ark of the Liberties of the World -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

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 against Great Britain and their experiences during the Revolutionary War, Gilje demonstrates that, while sailors recognized the ideals of the Revolution, their idea of liberty was far more individual in nature-often expressed through hard drinking and womanizing or joining a ship of their choice.Gilje continues the story into the post-Revolutionary world highlighted by the Quasi War with France, the confrontation with the Barbary Pirates, and the War of 1812.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910482289503321

Autore

Anon

Titolo

Sententie van het Hof van Holland (i.d. 26 Febr. 1529). oft acte van submissie waarby Adam Aertse Chirurgijn is gecondt om 14 gl. te betaelen ter saeke hij socyskens had gegeten op eenen saterdagh tusschen Kerstmisse en Lightemisse, en over speck op eenen Pinxter avont [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Netherlands, : [s.n.], 1529

Descrizione fisica

Online resource (2 p, f°)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Olandese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Nationale bibliotheek van Nederland.