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Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution

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Description for Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution Paperback. 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. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 360 pages, 43 illus. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 529.

Through careful research and colorful accounts, historian Paul A. Gilje discovers what liberty meant to an important group of common men in American society, those who lived and worked on the waterfront and aboard ships. In the process he reveals that the idealized vision of liberty associated with the Founding Fathers had a much more immediate and complex meaning than previously thought.

In Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution, life aboard warships, merchantmen, and whalers, as well as the interactions of mariners and others on shore, is recreated in absorbing detail. Describing the important ... Read more

Gilje continues the story into the post-Revolutionary world highlighted by the Quasi War with France, the confrontation with the Barbary Pirates, and the War of 1812.

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Series
Early American Studies
Condition
New
Weight
529 g
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812219937
SKU
V9780812219937
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Paul A. Gilje
Paul A. Gilje is Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Rioting in America and The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834.

Reviews for Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution
"In its ambitious sweep and encyclopedic detail, Gilje's rendering of American maritime culture during the tumultuous century from 1750 to 1850 is unlikely to be surpassed."—William and Mary Quarterly "Liberty on the Waterfront dramatically alters past perceptions of sailors and their worlds afloat and ashore. . . . A broad-based and skillfully crafted piece of social history."—Journal of American History ... Read more

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