With Sails Whitening Every Sea : : Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire / / Brian Rouleau.
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 ambit...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The United States in the World
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 9 halftones, 1 map |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: “Born to Rule the Seas”
- 1. Schoolhouses Afloat
- 2. Jim Crow Girdles the Globe
- 3. Maritime Destiny as Manifest Destiny
- 4. A Maritime Empire of Moral Depravity
- 5. An Intimate History of Early America’s Maritime Empire
- 6. Making Do at the Margins of Maritime Empire
- Epilogue: Out of the Sailor’s Den, into the Tourist Trap
- Notes
- Index