Michael Wayne Santos

Clouds of White Sail

Fishermen, Racing, and the End of an Era

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Clouds of White Sail tells the story of how early-twentieth-century fishermen from New England and the Canadian Maritime Provinces used the International Fishermen's Races to reignite the public's love affair with the beauty of their ships and the romance of the sea in order to hold onto their way of life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 307g
• ISBN-13: 9781793626035
• ISBN-10: 1793626030
• Artikelnr.: 58737257

Autorenporträt

Michael Santos is professor of history at the University of Lynchburg.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Romanticism and Reality: Fishermen as Workers and Heroes
1. Competition and Working Class Tradition among the Gloucestermen
2. Class, Community, and the Fishermen of Gloucester
3. The Early Races, 1886-1913
4. "Bucking the Inevitable": The View from the United States
5. "Bucking the Inevitable": The View from Canada
6. "Bona Fide Fishing Vessels": The Early Races for the Halifax Herald Trophy,
1920-1921
7. Forgetting Principle: Nationalism, Civic Pride, And the Quest for the
Trophy, 1922
8. Boosterism, Sentimentality, and Working Class Sport: Racing Between 1923
and 1929
9. "Clouds of White Sail": Romanticism and the End of Racing in the 1930s
Epilogue: Continuing Legacies
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index