Liberty on the waterfront : American maritime culture in the Age of Revolution /
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, showing how the American Jack Tar emerged as an important symbol of the spirit of the new nation. Finally, Gilje discusses the effort...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia, PA :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2004]
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| Series: | Early American studies.
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| Summary: | 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, showing how the American Jack Tar emerged as an important symbol of the spirit of the new nation. Finally, Gilje discusses the efforts of evangelical reform to reach the waterfront and examines expressions of the ideals of the Age of Revolution as they emerged from maritime workers themselves in the form of literature, including the work of Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, and Richard Henry Dana."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-323) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0812237560 9780812237566 9780812219937 0812219937 |