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Sailor's Hope : the life and times of William Cooper, agrarian radical in an age of revolutions / Rusty Bittermann.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bittermann, Rusty, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooper, William, 1786-1867.
- Cooper, William.
- Reformers--Prince Edward Island--Biography.
- Reformers.
- Legislators--Prince Edward Island--Biography.
- Legislators.
- Land reform--Prince Edward Island--History--19th century.
- Land reform.
- Prince Edward Island--Biography.
- Prince Edward Island.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (351 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Sailor's Hope provides a moving account of a multi-faceted man, tracking his engagement with the extraordinary changes occurring in the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds in the decades after the American and French Revolutions. William Cooper was born in poverty in industrializing Scotland. Without any formal education, he worked his way up through the British merchant marine to the position of captain on voyages linking Britain with Iberia and North America.
- Contents:
- Rural Scotland and the sea
- A mariner's life
- Sailor's Hope
- Struggles for justice
- "Making property"
- California bound
- The return
- Persistence in adversity
- Reflections.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-321) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-8117-0
- OCLC:
- 768230296
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