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With Sails Whitening Every Sea : Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The United States in the World SeriesPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (285 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801455087
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: With Sails Whitening Every SeaDDC classification:
  • 331.7/61387097309034
LOC classification:
  • G540
Online resources:
Contents:
With Sails Whitening Every Sea -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Born to Rule the Seas" -- 1. Schoolhouses Afloat -- 2. Jim Crow Girdles the Globe -- 3. Maritime Destiny as Manifest Destiny -- 4. A Maritime Empire of Moral Depravity -- 5. An Intimate History of Early America's Maritime Empire -- 6. Making Do at the Margins of Maritime Empire -- Epilogue: Out of the Sailor's Den, into the Tourist Trap -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Brian Rouleau argues that because of their ubiquity in foreign ports, American sailors were the principal agents of overseas foreign relations in the early republic.
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With Sails Whitening Every Sea -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Born to Rule the Seas" -- 1. Schoolhouses Afloat -- 2. Jim Crow Girdles the Globe -- 3. Maritime Destiny as Manifest Destiny -- 4. A Maritime Empire of Moral Depravity -- 5. An Intimate History of Early America's Maritime Empire -- 6. Making Do at the Margins of Maritime Empire -- Epilogue: Out of the Sailor's Den, into the Tourist Trap -- Notes -- Index.

Brian Rouleau argues that because of their ubiquity in foreign ports, American sailors were the principal agents of overseas foreign relations in the early republic.

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