Liberty on the Waterfront : : American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution / / Paul A. Gilje.
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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History |
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2004 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Early American Studies
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 43 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- PART I. ASHORE AND AFLOAT
- 1 The Sweets of Liberty
- 2 The Maid I Left Behind Me
- 3 A Sailor Ever Loves to Be in Motion
- PART II. REVOLUTION
- 4 The Sons of Neptune
- 5 Brave Republicans of the Ocean
- 6 Free Trade and Sailors' Rights
- PART III. LEGACY
- 7 Proper Objects of Christian Compassion
- 8 The Ark of the Liberties of the World
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments