The Autobiographies and Memoirs of Sailors in Antebellum America
by
Myra C. Glenn
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
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. It is the first study to use various kinds of institutional sources, including crew lists, ships' logs, impressment records, to document...