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Citizen sailors : becoming American in the age of revolution /

In the decades after the United States formally declared its independence in 1776, Americans struggled to gain recognition of their new republic and their rights as citizens. None had to fight harder than the nation's seamen, whose labor took them far from home and deep into the Atlantic world....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Perl-Rosenthal, Nathan, 1982- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Sailors > United States > History > 18th century.
Sailors > United States > History > 19th century.
Sailors > Civil rights > United States > History.
Citizenship > United States > History.
United States > History, Naval > 18th century.
United States > History, Naval > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • The common sense of nationality
  • Britons or Americans?
  • America afloat
  • Nation in a storm
  • The crisis
  • The struggle
  • Sailors into citizens
  • Paper citizens on a paper sea
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: The records of the London Agency.