The Resource With sails whitening every sea : mariners and the making of an American maritime empire, Brian Rouleau
With sails whitening every sea : mariners and the making of an American maritime empire, Brian Rouleau
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- Summary
- Many Americans in the Early Republic era saw the seas as another field for national aggrandizement. With a merchant marine that competed against Britain for commercial supremacy and a whaling fleet that circled the globe, the United States sought a maritime empire to complement its territorial ambitions in North America. In With Sails Whitening Every Sea, Brian Rouleau argues that because of their ubiquity in foreign ports, American sailors were the principal agents of overseas foreign relations in the early republic. Their everyday encounters and more problematic interactions--barroom brawling, sexual escapades in port-city bordellos, and the performance of blackface minstrel shows--shaped how the United States was perceived overseas. Rouleau details both the mariners' "working-class diplomacy" and the anxieties such interactions inspired among federal authorities and missionary communities, who saw the behavior of American sailors as mere debauchery. Indiscriminate violence and licentious conduct, they feared, threatened both mercantile profit margins and the nation's reputation overseas. As Rouleau chronicles, the world's oceans and seaport spaces soon became a battleground over the terms by which American citizens would introduce themselves to the world. But by the end of the Civil War, seamen were no longer the nation's principal ambassadors. Hordes of wealthy tourists had replaced seafarers, and those privileged travelers moved through a world characterized by consolidated state and corporate authority. Expanding nineteenth-century America's master narrative beyond the water's edge, With Sails Whitening Every Sea reveals the maritime networks that bound the Early Republic to the wider world
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 268 pages)
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780801455087
- Label
- With sails whitening every sea : mariners and the making of an American maritime empire
- Title
- With sails whitening every sea
- Title remainder
- mariners and the making of an American maritime empire
- Statement of responsibility
- Brian Rouleau
- Subject
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- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor
- Diplomatic relations
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century
- History
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations
- Sailors -- Social conditions
- Sailors -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Sea-power
- Sea-power -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Seemacht
- Seemann
- Soziale Situation
- USA
- United States
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 19th century
- 1800-1899
- Außenpolitik
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Many Americans in the Early Republic era saw the seas as another field for national aggrandizement. With a merchant marine that competed against Britain for commercial supremacy and a whaling fleet that circled the globe, the United States sought a maritime empire to complement its territorial ambitions in North America. In With Sails Whitening Every Sea, Brian Rouleau argues that because of their ubiquity in foreign ports, American sailors were the principal agents of overseas foreign relations in the early republic. Their everyday encounters and more problematic interactions--barroom brawling, sexual escapades in port-city bordellos, and the performance of blackface minstrel shows--shaped how the United States was perceived overseas. Rouleau details both the mariners' "working-class diplomacy" and the anxieties such interactions inspired among federal authorities and missionary communities, who saw the behavior of American sailors as mere debauchery. Indiscriminate violence and licentious conduct, they feared, threatened both mercantile profit margins and the nation's reputation overseas. As Rouleau chronicles, the world's oceans and seaport spaces soon became a battleground over the terms by which American citizens would introduce themselves to the world. But by the end of the Civil War, seamen were no longer the nation's principal ambassadors. Hordes of wealthy tourists had replaced seafarers, and those privileged travelers moved through a world characterized by consolidated state and corporate authority. Expanding nineteenth-century America's master narrative beyond the water's edge, With Sails Whitening Every Sea reveals the maritime networks that bound the Early Republic to the wider world
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rouleau, Brian
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- In English
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- United States in the world
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Sailors
- Sea-power
- United States
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- HISTORY
- Diplomatic relations
- Sailors
- Sea-power
- United States
- Außenpolitik
- Seemacht
- Seemann
- Soziale Situation
- USA
- Label
- With sails whitening every sea : mariners and the making of an American maritime empire, Brian Rouleau
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocn904979477
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 268 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780801455087
- Lccn
- 2014024630
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
- 10.7591/9780801455087
- Other physical details
- illustraions, map
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt9xz6kr
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)904979477
- Label
- With sails whitening every sea : mariners and the making of an American maritime empire, Brian Rouleau
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocn904979477
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 268 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780801455087
- Lccn
- 2014024630
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
- 10.7591/9780801455087
- Other physical details
- illustraions, map
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt9xz6kr
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)904979477
Subject
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor
- Diplomatic relations
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century
- History
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations
- Sailors -- Social conditions
- Sailors -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Sea-power
- Sea-power -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Seemacht
- Seemann
- Soziale Situation
- USA
- United States
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 19th century
- 1800-1899
- Außenpolitik
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