With sails whitening every sea : mariners and the making of an American maritime empire /

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Many Americans in the Early Republic era saw the seas as another field for national aggrandizement. With a merchant marine that competed against Britain for commercial supremacy and a whaling fleet that circled the globe, the United States sought a maritime empire to complement its territorial ambit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rouleau, Brian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Colección:United States in the world.
Temas:
Seemann
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
1800-1899
Sailors > United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Sea-power > United States > History > 19th century.
Marins > États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Puissance maritime > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Diplomatic relations
Sailors > Social conditions
Sea-power
Außenpolitik
Seemacht
Soziale Situation
United States > Foreign relations > 19th century.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures > 19e siècle.
United States
Electronic book.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Born to rule the seas
  • Schoolhouses afloat
  • Jim Crow girdles the globe
  • Maritime destiny as manifest destiny
  • A maritime empire of moral depravity
  • An intimate history of maritime empire
  • Making do at the margins of maritime empire
  • Epilogue: out of the sailor's den, into the tourist trap.

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