Eastward of Good Hope : Early America in a Dangerous World /

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"Reexamining Yankee "voyages of commerce and discovery" into distant seas in the decades after the War of Independence, this book reveals how "news from the East" carried in ships logs and mariners' news reports, journals, and correspondence shaped Americans' under...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morrison, Dane Anthony (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Americans > Travel > Oceania > History > 19th century.
Americans > Travel > Asia > History > 19th century.
United States > Foreign relations > Oceania.
Oceania > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Asia.
Asia > Foreign relations > United States.
Oceania > Foreign public opinion, American.
Asia > Foreign public opinion, American.
Oceania > Description and travel.
Asia > Description and travel.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Reexamining Yankee "voyages of commerce and discovery" into distant seas in the decades after the War of Independence, this book reveals how "news from the East" carried in ships logs and mariners' news reports, journals, and correspondence shaped Americans' understanding of the world as a map of dangerous and incoherent sites. Focusing on four representative arenas-the Ottoman Empire, China, India, and the Great South Sea-and drawing on recent scholarship in global ethnohistory, the author recounts how reports of cannibal encounters, shipboard massacres, shipwrecks, tropical fever, and other tragedies in distant seas led Americans to imagine each region as a distinct set of threats to their republic"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (336 pages).
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781421442372

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