Paul A. Gilje

Free Trade and Sailors' Rights in the War of 1812 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

On 2 July 1812, Captain David Porter raised a banner on the USS Essex proclaiming 'a free trade and sailors rights', thus creating a political slogan that explained the War of 1812. Free trade demanded the protection of American commerce, while sailors' rights insisted that the British end the impressment of seamen from American ships. Repeated for decades in Congress and in taverns, the slogan reminds us today that the second war with Great Britain was not a mistake. It was a contest for the ideals of the American Revolution bringing together both the high culture of the Enlightenment to establish a new political economy and the low culture of the common folk to assert the equality of humankind. Understanding the War of 1812 and the motto that came to explain it - free trade and sailors' rights - allows us to better comprehend the origins of the American nation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107357600
• Artikelnr.: 38078951

Autorenporträt

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.