A Green Hand's First Cruise
A Green Hand's First Cruise

Author: Josiah Cobb

Publisher: Applewood Books

Published: 2009-09

Total Pages: 610

ISBN-13: 1429020687

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 1; Original Published by: Cushing & brother in 1841 in 294 pages; Subjects: Privateering; United States; Sailors; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Military; History / General; History / Military / World War II; History / Military / Naval; Sports & Recreation / Sailing; Transportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / General;

Liberty on the Waterfront
Liberty on the Waterfront

Author: Paul A. Gilje

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2012-04-17

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0812202023

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Through careful research and colorful accounts, historian Paul A. Gilje discovers what liberty meant to an important group of common men in American society, those who lived and worked on the waterfront and aboard ships. In the process he reveals that the idealized vision of liberty associated with the Founding Fathers had a much more immediate and complex meaning than previously thought. In Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution, life aboard warships, merchantmen, and whalers, as well as the interactions of mariners and others on shore, is recreated in absorbing detail. Describing the important contributions of sailors to the resistance movement against Great Britain and their experiences during the Revolutionary War, Gilje demonstrates that, while sailors recognized the ideals of the Revolution, their idea of liberty was far more individual in nature—often expressed through hard drinking and womanizing or joining a ship of their choice. Gilje continues the story into the post-Revolutionary world highlighted by the Quasi War with France, the confrontation with the Barbary Pirates, and the War of 1812.