Paul A. Gilje Bücher

This book explores American maritime world, including cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, and material culture.

An eye-opening account of the role of rioting in American history.

Talks about what liberty meant to an important group of common men in American society, those who lived and worked on the waterfront and aboard ships. This book shows that the idealized vision of liberty associated with the Founding Fathers had a much more immediate and complex meaning than previously thought.

This book examines the political slogan 'free trade and sailors rights' and traces its sources to eighteenth-century intellectual thought and Americans' previous experience with impressment into the British navy. The book details the diplomatic history surrounding the War of 1812 and provides a... číst celé