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Liberty on the Waterfront
2011,2004,2012,2007
Overview
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.InLiberty 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.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc,University of Pennsylvania Press
Subject
/ HISTORY
/ Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
/ Sailors
/ 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
/ United States -- History, Naval -- 18th century
/ United states -- History, Naval -- 19th century
/ United States-History, Naval-To 1900
ISBN
0812219937, 9780812219937, 0812237560, 9780812237566, 9780812202021, 0812202023
