Social Reform in the United States Navy, 1798-1862 - Langley, Harold D
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In the decades before the American Civil War various political, social and religious groups were agitating for reforms in American society that would be in keeping with its professed democratic principles. One such organisation was the American Seaman's Friend Society which agitated and lobbied for an improvements in the enlistment, discipline and treatment of sailors. This book explores the circumstances and people who convinced Congress to enact reforms to improve the conditions of service of naval enlisted men.

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Produktbeschreibung
In the decades before the American Civil War various political, social and religious groups were agitating for reforms in American society that would be in keeping with its professed democratic principles. One such organisation was the American Seaman's Friend Society which agitated and lobbied for an improvements in the enlistment, discipline and treatment of sailors. This book explores the circumstances and people who convinced Congress to enact reforms to improve the conditions of service of naval enlisted men.
Autorenporträt
Harold D. Langley has served as an archivist at the University of Pennsylvania Library and Library of Congress, a diplomatic historian for the U.S. Department of State, a professor at The Catholic University of America, and as an associate curator of naval history at the National Museum of American History. The author of A History of Medicine in the Early U.S. Navy, he resides in Arlington, VA.