Examines the slogan 'free trade and sailors rights', tracing its sources to eighteenth-century thought and Americans' experience with impressment into the British navy.
Examines the slogan 'free trade and sailors rights', tracing its sources to eighteenth-century thought and Americans' experience with impressment into the British navy.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Paul Gilje is a George Lynn Cross Research Professor in the Department of History at the University of Oklahoma. He holds an MA and PhD from Brown University and has held fellowships at Johns Hopkins University and Washington University, St Louis. Gilje is the author of The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834; Riots in America; Liberty on the Waterfront: Society and Culture of the American Maritime World in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850; and The Making of the American Republic, 1763-1815. Liberty on the Waterfront received the 2004 Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Best Book Prize and the 2004 North American Society for Oceanic History John Lyman Book Award in the category of United States Maritime History. Professor Gilje has organized an adult civics program in the state of Oklahoma, consulted for museums, edited several books and lectured widely in Europe and America. Throughout his career he has a sustained interest in how common people have been affected by the larger events of history.
Inhaltsangabe
Part I. Free Trade: 1. The Enlightenment and defining free trade 2. The revolutionary experience 3. The new diplomacy 4. Legacy Part II. Sailors' Rights: 5. Anglo-American traditions 6. The rise of Jack Tar 7. Impressment 8. Citizenship 9. The Hermione and the rights of man Part III. Origins: 10. Empire of liberty 11. Indians in the way 12. Contested commerce 13. The ordeal of Jack Tar 14. Honor Part IV. War: 15. The odyssey of the Essex 16. The language of combat 17. Politics of war 18. Pursuit of peace 19. Dartmoor Part V. Memory: 20. Winning the peace 21. Remembering impressment 22. The persistent dream 23. Politics 24. Popular culture 25. Conclusion.
Part I. Free Trade: 1. The Enlightenment and defining free trade 2. The revolutionary experience 3. The new diplomacy 4. Legacy Part II. Sailors' Rights: 5. Anglo-American traditions 6. The rise of Jack Tar 7. Impressment 8. Citizenship 9. The Hermione and the rights of man Part III. Origins: 10. Empire of liberty 11. Indians in the way 12. Contested commerce 13. The ordeal of Jack Tar 14. Honor Part IV. War: 15. The odyssey of the Essex 16. The language of combat 17. Politics of war 18. Pursuit of peace 19. Dartmoor Part V. Memory: 20. Winning the peace 21. Remembering impressment 22. The persistent dream 23. Politics 24. Popular culture 25. Conclusion.
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