Jack Tar's story : the autobiographies and memoirs of sailors in antebellum America / Myra C. Glenn.
Jack Tar's story : the autobiographies and memoirs of sailors in antebellum America / Myra C. Glenn.
Jack Tar's story : the autobiographies and memoirs of sailors in antebellum America / Myra C. Glenn.
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Date
2010.
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N387.50922/4
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English
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xi, 194 p. ; 24 cm.
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Machine generated contents note: Introduction: why study antebellum sailor narratives?; 1. Stories of escape, freedom, and captivity: seaman authors recall their early years; 2. Manhood, nationalism, and sailor narratives of British captivity and the War of 1812; 3. Exploring the meaning of revoluti...
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2010.
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"Jack Tar's Story examines the autobiographies and memoirs of antebellum American sailors to explore contested meanings of manhood and nationalism in the early republic. It is the first study to use various kinds of institutional sources, including crew lists, ships' logs, impressment records, to document the stories sailors told. It focuses on how...
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Jack Tar's story : the autobiographies and memoirs of sailors in antebellum America / Myra C. Glenn.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N387.50922/4
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74VKOXGEz5Nb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKOXGEz5Nb
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0521193680
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387.5092273
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991022521489702626
