True yankees : The South Seas and the discovery of American identity / by Dane A. Morrison.
True yankees : The South Seas and the discovery of American identity / by Dane A. Morrison.
True yankees : The South Seas and the discovery of American identity / by Dane A. Morrison.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
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G 2015/2338
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English
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xxii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Part I. The first generation -- Samuel Shaw's polite reception, 1784-1794 -- Amasa Delano opens the great South Sea, 1790-1820 -- Edmund Fanning's "Voyages round the world," 1793-1834 -- Part II. The second generation -- Harriett Low in Manila and Macao, 1829-1834 -- Robert Bennet Forbes and the Fir...
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Place of Publication
Maryland
Date Published
2014.
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"With American independence came the freedom to sail anywhere in the world under a new flag. During the years between the Treaty of Paris and the Treaty of Wangxi, Americans first voyaged past the Cape of Good Hope, reaching the ports of Algiers and the bazaars of Arabia, the markets of India and the beaches of Sumatra, the villages of Cochin, Chin...
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True yankees : The South Seas and the discovery of American identity / by Dane A. Morrison.
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The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 131st series, 1.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2015/2338
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74VK7Op4G73g
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ISBN
1421415429 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781421415420 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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917.3
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991022778969702626
