Liberty on the waterfront [[electronic resource] ] : American maritime culture in the Age of Revolution / / Paul A. Gilje
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| Autore: |
Gilje Paul A. <1951->
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| Titolo: |
Liberty on the waterfront [[electronic resource] ] : American maritime culture in the Age of Revolution / / Paul A. Gilje
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| Pubblicazione: | Philadelphia, PA, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2004 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (359 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.93875097 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States History, Naval To 1900 |
| Soggetto non controllato: | American History |
| American Studies | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Liberty on the waterfront |
| ISBN: | 1-283-89073-9 |
| 0-8122-0202-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910815842303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Early American studies.