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With sails whitening every sea : mariners and the making of an American maritime empire / Brian Rouleau.
LIBRA G540 .R68 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rouleau, Brian, author.
- Series:
- United States in the world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sailors--United States--Social conditions--19th century.
- Sailors.
- Sea-power.
- History.
- Social conditions.
- United States--Foreign relations--19th century.
- United States.
- International relations.
- Sea-power--United States--History--19th century.
- Diplomatic relations.
- Sailors--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 268 pages : illustraions, map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- Born to rule the seas
- Schoolhouses afloat
- Jim Crow girdles the globe
- Maritime destiny as manifest destiny
- A maritime empire of moral depravity
- An intimate history of maritime empire
- Making do at the margins of maritime empire
- Epilogue: out of the sailor's den, into the tourist trap.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0801452333
- 9780801452338
- OCLC:
- 879583370
- Publisher Number:
- 99961642693
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