With sails whitening every sea : mariners and the making of an American maritime empire / Brian Rouleau.
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| Language: | English |
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Ithaca ; London :
Cornell University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | United States in the world.
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Table of Contents:
- Born to rule the seas
- Schoolhouses afloat
- Jim Crow girdles the globe
- Maritime destiny as manifest destiny
- A maritime empire of moral depravity
- An intimate history of maritime empire
- Making do at the margins of maritime empire
- Epilogue: out of the sailor's den, into the tourist trap.