Jack Tar''s Story - The Autobiographies and Memoirs of Sailors in Antebellum America

Informationen zum Autor Myra C. Glenn is Professor of American History at Elmira College. She is the author of Campaigns against Corporal Punishment: Prisoners, Sailors, Women, and Children in Antebellum America and Thomas K. Beecher: Minister to a Changing America, 1824–1900. Her work has appeared in numerous professional journals, and she is the recipient of two Fulbright lecture awards. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Examines the autobiographies and memoirs of antebellum American sailors to explore meanings of manhood and nationalism in the early republic. It focuses on how mariners remembered/interpreted events including the War of 1812! the Haitian Revolution! South America's wars of independence! flogging on the high seas! roistering! and religious conversion. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 revolution in the Americas: sailor narratives of the Haitian and South American Wars of Independence; 4. Defending one's rights as a man and an American citizen: sailor narratives as exposés of flogging; 5. Straddling conflicting notions of manhood: sailor narratives as stories of roistering and religious conversion; Afterword.

Product details

• Authors: Myra C. Glenn, Glenn Myra C.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.07.2014
• EAN: 9781107693258
• ISBN: 978-1-107-69325-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / United States / General, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, maritime history, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas