LEADER 04299nam 2200697 450 001 9910808588603321 005 20230126211133.0 010 $a0-8014-5507-3 010 $a0-8014-5508-1 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801455087 035 $a(CKB)2670000000601945 035 $a(EBL)3138704 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001441348 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11772212 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001441348 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11412243 035 $a(PQKB)10720210 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001510072 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138704 035 $a(OCoLC)904979477 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37660 035 $a(DE-B1597)478442 035 $a(OCoLC)979627665 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801455087 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138704 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11033248 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL751610 035 $a(OCoLC)922998659 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000601945 100 $a20150325h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWith sails whitening every sea $emariners and the making of an American maritime empire /$fBrian Rouleau 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aLondon, [England] :$cCornell University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (285 p.) 225 1 $aUnited States in the World 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-336-20324-2 311 $a0-8014-5233-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: "Born to Rule the Seas" --$t1. Schoolhouses Afloat --$t2. Jim Crow Girdles the Globe --$t3. Maritime Destiny as Manifest Destiny --$t4. A Maritime Empire of Moral Depravity --$t5. An Intimate History of Early America's Maritime Empire --$t6. Making Do at the Margins of Maritime Empire --$tEpilogue: Out of the Sailor's Den, into the Tourist Trap --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aMany Americans in the Early Republic era saw the seas as another field for national aggrandizement. With a merchant marine that competed against Britain for commercial supremacy and a whaling fleet that circled the globe, the United States sought a maritime empire to complement its territorial ambitions in North America. In With Sails Whitening Every Sea, Brian Rouleau argues that because of their ubiquity in foreign ports, American sailors were the principal agents of overseas foreign relations in the early republic. Their everyday encounters and more problematic interactions-barroom brawling, sexual escapades in port-city bordellos, and the performance of blackface minstrel shows-shaped how the United States was perceived overseas. Rouleau details both the mariners' "working-class diplomacy" and the anxieties such interactions inspired among federal authorities and missionary communities, who saw the behavior of American sailors as mere debauchery. Indiscriminate violence and licentious conduct, they feared, threatened both mercantile profit margins and the nation's reputation overseas. As Rouleau chronicles, the world's oceans and seaport spaces soon became a battleground over the terms by which American citizens would introduce themselves to the world. But by the end of the Civil War, seamen were no longer the nation's principal ambassadors. Hordes of wealthy tourists had replaced seafarers, and those privileged travelers moved through a world characterized by consolidated state and corporate authority. Expanding nineteenth-century America's master narrative beyond the water's edge, With Sails Whitening Every Sea reveals the maritime networks that bound the Early Republic to the wider world. 410 0$aUnited States in the world. 606 $aSailors$zUnited States$xSocial conditions$y19th century 606 $aSea-power$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y19th century 615 0$aSailors$xSocial conditions 615 0$aSea-power$xHistory 676 $a331.7/61387097309034 700 $aRouleau$b Brian$01718813 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808588603321 996 $aWith sails whitening every sea$94116075 997 $aUNINA