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With Sails Whitening Every Sea: Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire
Brian Rouleau
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Hardback. Series: The United States in the World. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10, 9 black & white halftones, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTM; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
Many Americans in the Early Republic era saw the seas as another field for national aggrandizement. With a merchant marine that competed against Britain for commercial supremacy and a whaling fleet that circled the globe, the United States sought a maritime empire to complement its territorial ambitions in North America. In With Sails Whitening Every Sea, Brian Rouleau argues that because of their ubiquity in foreign ports, American sailors were the principal agents of overseas foreign relations in the early republic. Their everyday encounters and more problematic interactions-barroom brawling, sexual escapades in port-city bordellos, and the performance of blackface minstrel ... Read more
Many Americans in the Early Republic era saw the seas as another field for national aggrandizement. With a merchant marine that competed against Britain for commercial supremacy and a whaling fleet that circled the globe, the United States sought a maritime empire to complement its territorial ambitions in North America. In With Sails Whitening Every Sea, Brian Rouleau argues that because of their ubiquity in foreign ports, American sailors were the principal agents of overseas foreign relations in the early republic. Their everyday encounters and more problematic interactions-barroom brawling, sexual escapades in port-city bordellos, and the performance of blackface minstrel ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
The United States in the World
Condition
New
Weight
513g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801452338
SKU
V9780801452338
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About Brian Rouleau
Brian Rouleau is Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&M University.
Reviews for With Sails Whitening Every Sea: Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire
In this groundbreaking study of U.S. sailors abroad, Brian Rouleau rewrites the history of U.S. foreign relations during the antebellum era. Through keen analysis, impressive research, and compelling storytelling, Rouleau reveals that Manifest Destiny was a global process that extended far beyond U.S. terrestrial borders and into the vast reaches of the Atlantic and Pacific. He shows that long before ... Read more