Jack Tar Vs John Bull

Author : Jesse Lemisch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317731894

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Jack Tar vs. John Bull by Jesse Lemisch Pdf

This classic study explores the role of merchant seamen in precipitating the American revolution. It analyzes the participation of seamen in impressment riots, the Stamp Act Riot, the Battle of Golden Hill, and other incidents. The book describes these events and explores the social world of the seamen, offering explanations for their actions. Focusing on the culture, politics, and experiences of early American seamen, this legendary study played an important role in the development of histories of the common people and has inspired generations of social and early American historians. Lemisch's later related article, Jack Tar in the Streets, was named one of the ten most important articles ever published in the prestigious William and Mary Quarterly. Long unavailable, this edition includes an index and an appreciative foreword by Marcus Rediker, author of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750 (Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1962)

Author : Paul A. Gilje
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107355101

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Free Trade and Sailors' Rights in the War of 1812 by Paul A. Gilje Pdf

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.

Author : Christopher P. Magra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107112148

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Poseidon's Curse by Christopher P. Magra Pdf

An investigation of the Atlantic origins of the American Revolution, focusing on the British navy's impressment of American ships and mariners.

Author : Brett Goodin
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421438986

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From Captives to Consuls by Brett Goodin Pdf

How three white, non-elite American sailors turned their experiences of captivity into diverse career opportunities—and influenced America's physical, commercial, ideological, and diplomatic development. Winner of the John Lyman Book Award by the North American Society for Oceanic History From 1784 to 1815, hundreds of American sailors were held as "white slaves" in the North African Barbary States. In From Captives to Consuls, Brett Goodin vividly traces the lives of three of these men—Richard O'Brien, James Cathcart, and James Riley—from the Atlantic coast during the American Revolution to North Africa, from Philadelphia to the Louisiana Territories, and finally to the western frontier. This first scholarly biography of American captives in Barbary sifts through their highly curated writings to reveal how ordinary individuals in extraordinary circumstances could maneuver through and contribute to nation building in early America, all the while advancing their own interests. The three subjects of this collective biography both reflected and helped refine evolving American concepts of liberty, identity, race, masculinity, and nationhood. Time and again, Goodin reveals, O'Brien, Cathcart, and Riley uncovered opportunities in their adversity. They variously found advantage first in the Revolution as privateers, then in captivity by writing bestselling captivity narratives and successfully framing their ordeal as a qualification for coveted government employment. They even used their modest fame as ex-captives to become diplomats, get elected to state legislatures, and survey the nation's territorial expansions in the South and West. Their successful self-interested pursuit of opportunities offered by the expanding American empire, Goodin argues, constitutes what he calls "the invisible hand of American nation building." Goodin shows how these ordinary men, lacking the genius of a Benjamin Franklin or Alexander Hamilton, depended on sheer luck and adaptability in their quest for financial independence and public recognition. Drawing on archival collections, newspapers, private correspondence, and government documents, From Captives to Consuls sheds new light on the significance of ordinary individuals in guiding early American ideas of science, international relations, and what it meant to be a self-made man.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Canada
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011641615

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Left History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : English wit and humor
ISBN : OXFORD:555098367

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Punch, Or, The London Charivari by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul A. Gilje,William Pencak
Publisher : Maritime
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105130568939

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Pirates, Jack Tar, and Memory by Paul A. Gilje,William Pencak Pdf

These nine essays explore new directions and ways to pursue the elusive Jack Tar--the common sailor in the early modern world. We see him as a pirate, learn something of the ships he sailed, and share his experience in the Revolutionary War and War of 1812. We also see him as a spinner of yarns--a great story teller--helping to mold his own and our national identity, while contributing to the development of a unique American literature. We see some Jacks seeking social mobility. We see others challenging authority aboard ships and during shipwrecks. While Jack in some ways remains elusive, and it is impossible to calculate his movements, as sailor Nathaniel Ames wrote, these essays move us closer to an understanding of his eccentric path.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : English wit and humor
ISBN : PURD:32754074184981

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Punch by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph Grego
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : EHC:148101060607Y

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Rowlandson the Caricaturist by Joseph Grego Pdf

Author : James Gillray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
ISBN : BL:A0024477554

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The Works of James Gillray, the Caricaturist; with the History of His Life and Times [by J. Grego]. by James Gillray Pdf

Author : Humphrey Evans,S. D. Goff,L. P. Muir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Cattle
ISBN : CORNELL:31924056347713

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American Short-horn Record by Humphrey Evans,S. D. Goff,L. P. Muir Pdf

Author : Lewis Falley Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Cattle
ISBN : UCAL:B3243448

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The American Herd Book by Lewis Falley Allen Pdf

To which is prefixed a concise history of English and American Short horns, compiled from the best authorities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Cattle
ISBN : CORNELL:31924066239066

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The American Shorthorn Herd Book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Cattle
ISBN : PSU:000066648789

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The American Short-horn Herd Book ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Arbuthnot John
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 131874556X

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The History of John Bull by Arbuthnot John Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.