Citizen Sailors : Becoming American in the Age of Revolution / Nathan Perl-Rosenthal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perl-Rosenthal, Nathan, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship--United States--History--History.

Citizenship.

Citizenship--United States--History.

Sailors--Civil rights--United States--History.

Sailors.

Sailors--United States--History--18th century.

Sailors--United States--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.) : 12 halftones, 2 line illustrations, 5 maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

After 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 deep into the Atlantic world. Nathan Perl-Rosenthal tells the story of how their efforts created the first national, racially inclusive model of U.S. citizenship.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prologue

1. The Common Sense of Nationality

2. Britons or Americans?

3. America Afloat

4. Nation in the Storm

5. The Crisis

6. The Struggle

7. Sailors into Citizens

8. Paper Citizens on a Paper Sea

Epilogue

Appendix: The Records of the London Agency

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-674-08917-0

OCLC:

925305700