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Citizen sailors : becoming American in the age of Revolution
Présentation de l'éditeur : "In the decades after the United States formally declared its independence in 1776, Americans struggled to gain recognition of their new republic and their rights as citizens. None had to fight harder than the nation s seamen, whose labor took them far from home...
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | Citizen sailors : becoming American in the age of Revolution / Nathan Perl-Rosenthal |
| Publié : |
Cambridge, Mass. [etc.] :
The Belknap press of Harvard University press
, 2015 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (372 p.) |
| Sujets : |
- Prologue
- 1. The Common Sense of Nationality
- 2. Britons or Americans?
- 3. America Afloat
- 4. Nation in the Storm
- 5. The Crisis
- 6. The Struggle
- 7. Sailors into Citizens
- 8. Paper Citizens on a Paper Sea
- Epilogue
- Appendix: The Records of the London Agency
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Maps
- 1. The Atlantic world, circa 1776
- 2. Europe, circa 1789
- 3. The Caribbean, circa 1794
- 4. Citizenship certificates issued by collectors of customs, 1796 1802
- 5. Certification of a sailor s citizenship, circa 1812