Young Men and the Sea / Algernon Charles Swinburne; Jerome McGann, Charles L. Sligh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, Author.

Contributor:

McGann, Jerome, Editor.

Sligh, Charles L., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Seafaring life--New England--History.

Seafaring life.

Seafaring life--Massachusetts--Salem--History.

Sailors--New England--History.

Sailors.

Sailors--Massachusetts--Salem--History.

Salem (Mass.)--History, Naval.

Salem (Mass.).

New England--History, Naval.

New England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2005]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Two centuries of American maritime history, in which the Atlantic Ocean remained the great frontier Westward expansion has been the great narrative of the first two centuries of American history, but as historian Daniel Vickers demonstrates here, the horizon extended in all directions. For those who lived along the Atlantic coast, it was the East-and the Atlantic Ocean-that beckoned. While historical and fictional accounts have tended to stress the exceptional circumstances or psychological compulsions that drove men to sea, this book shows how normal a part of life seafaring was for those living near a coast before the mid-nineteenth century.Drawing on records of several thousand seamen and their voyages from Salem, Massachusetts, Young Men and the Sea offers a social history of seafaring in the colonial and early national period. In what sort of families were sailors raised? When did they go to sea? What were their chances of death? Whom did they marry, and how did their wives operate households in their absence? Answering these and many other questions, this book is destined to become a classic of American social and maritime history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Landsmen on the Water

2. Salem's First Mariners, 1645-1690

3. The Eighteenth Century

4. The Eighteenth Century

5. The Eighteenth Century

6. The Nineteenth Century

7. Mastery and the Maritime Law

Conclusion

Appendix A. Primary Sources

Appendix B. Graphs

Appendix C. Ship's Logs

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300150261

0300150261

OCLC:

953660556