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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
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- ISBN
- 9780801452338
- Book Title
- With Sails Whitening Every Sea : Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire
- Book Series
- The United States in the World Ser.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Item Length
- 9.1 in
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Transportation, Political Science, History
- Topic
- Military / Naval, United States / 19th Century, International Relations / General, Ships & Shipbuilding / General, Maritime History & Piracy
- Item Weight
- 32.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
0801452333
ISBN-13
9780801452338
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201573721
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Book Title
With Sails Whitening Every Sea : Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Military / Naval, United States / 19th Century, International Relations / General, Ships & Shipbuilding / General, Maritime History & Piracy
Publication Year
2014
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Transportation, Political Science, History
Book Series
The United States in the World Ser.
Format
Hardcover
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Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.1 in
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2014-024630
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"With Sails Whitening Every Sea effectively illustrates a wide range of intercultural encounters between sailors and the people they met around the globe. Brian Rouleau's work makes a contribution to the field of diplomatic history by recovering the critical role American sailors, the era's largest and most important body of cross-cultural actors, played in foreign relations in the nineteenth century. As Rouleau writes, 'The world knew the United States, and United States knew the world, through its sailors.'"--Kariann Yokota, University of Colorado, Denver, author of Unbecoming British: How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation, "Rouleau hascrafted an impressive reimagining of working-class seafarers that places them at the heart ofthe American encounter with the world in theearly and mid-nineteenth century. . . .Rouleau's straightforward arguments,imaginative research, wit, and strength as awriter made this work an uncommonly pleasant read."-Joshua M. Smith, Journal of American History (March 2016), "Brian Rouleau's book is an important addition to the growing field of literature and scholarship that seeks to more completely assess the role of American mariners in the Early Republic."-Timothy G. Lynch, Sea History (Winter 2015-16), The major strength of Rouleau's work is that he does not limit his scope to either the Pacific or Atlantic. Instead he sets out to examine a global maritime empire., Rouleau has crafted an impressive reimagining of working-class seafarers that places them at the heart of the American encounter with the world in the early and mid-nineteenth century.... Rouleau's straightforward arguments, imaginative research, wit, and strength as a writer made this work an uncommonly pleasant read., Brian Rouleau's new book forces us to reconsider the ways in which foreign relations work. Ordinary people, it turns out, have had an enormous impact on international affairs. Rouleau's provocative book explains how common maritime laborers shaped the contours of America's entanglements with foreign peoples during the nineteenth century. Rouleau has a true talent for seeing the larger dimensions of everyday interactions., "The major strength of Rouleau's work is that he does not limit his scope to either the Pacific or Atlantic. Instead he sets out to examine a global maritime empire."--Antony Adler,H-War(June 2015), In this groundbreaking study of U.S. sailors abroad, Brian Rouleau rewrites the history of U.S. foreign relations during the antebellum era. Through keen analysis, impressive research, and compelling storytelling, Rouleau reveals that Manifest Destiny was a global process that extended far beyond U.S. terrestrial borders and into the vast reaches of the Atlantic and Pacific. He shows that long before the late nineteenth-century push for global empire, antebellum sailors were critical nonstate actors who--as writers, laborers, minstrel show performers, traders, and violent defenders of white American masculinity--shaped the course of U.S. diplomacy and remade the meaning of race and gender worldwide., "With Sails Whitening Every Sea effectively illustrates a wide range of intercultural encounters between sailors and the people they met around the globe. Brian Rouleau's work makes a contribution to the field of diplomatic history by recovering the critical role American sailors, the era's largest and most important body of cross-cultural actors, played in foreign relations in the nineteenth century. As Rouleau writes, 'The world knew the United States, and United States knew the world, through its sailors.'"-Kariann Yokota, University of Colorado, Denver, author of Unbecoming British: How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation, "Rouleau hascrafted an impressive reimagining of working-class seafarers that places them at the heart ofthe American encounter with the world in theearly and mid-nineteenth century. . . .Rouleau's straightforward arguments,imaginative research, wit, and strength as awriter made this work an uncommonly pleasant read."--Joshua M. Smith, Journal of American History (March 2016), American sailors roamed the globe by the hundreds of thousands in the decades before the Civil War, yet they've been all but excluded from our histories of early U.S. foreign relations. Brian Rouleau's smart, probing, and tough-minded book will permanently change that., "Brian Rouleau's new book forces usto reconsider the ways in which foreign relations work. Ordinary people, it turnsout, have had an enormous impact on international affairs. Rouleau's provocative book explains how common maritime laborers shapedthe contours of America's entanglements with foreign peoples during the nineteenthcentury.Rouleau has a true talent for seeing the larger dimensions of everyday interactions."-Christopher P. Magra, Diplomatic History, "In this groundbreaking study of U.S. sailors abroad, Brian Rouleau rewrites the history of U.S. foreign relations during the antebellum era. Through keen analysis, impressive research, and compelling storytelling, Rouleau reveals that Manifest Destiny was a global process that extended far beyond U.S. terrestrial borders and into the vast reaches of the Atlantic and Pacific. He shows that long before the late nineteenth-century push for global empire, antebellum sailors were critical nonstate actors who--as writers, laborers, minstrel show performers, traders, and violent defenders of white American masculinity--shaped the course of U.S. diplomacy and remade the meaning of race and gender worldwide."--Stacey L. Smith, Oregon State University, author of Frontiers of Freedom: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, With Sails Whitening Every Sea challenges a popular view concerning the romance of American maritime history. It examines this image through the lens of sociology and effectively casts nostalgia and sentimentality upon the rocks of ruthless racist reality.... [T]his is a valuable book worthy of being added to any maritime historian's library., "Rouleau points out - provocatively and persuasively - that much of what antebellum Americansknew of the world was filtered 'through maritime mediation' (p. 34). Seafarers' letters, memoirsand reports from abroad were not just the stuff of later romanticized remembrances of the 'days ofsail', rather, they were essential sources of commercial and ethnographic information as theAmerican imagination chased American commerce around the globe. . . . With Sails Whitening Every Sea handles well thetremendous complexity of the subject matter. All of the categories discussed - gender, race, class- were moving targets, all the more so at sea, and historians are richer for Rouleau's careful and sophisticated examination of his subject."-Matthew Taylor Raffety, International Journal of Maritime History (November 2015), "In this groundbreaking study of U.S. sailors abroad, Brian Rouleau rewrites the history of U.S. foreign relations during the antebellum era. Through keen analysis, impressive research, and compelling storytelling, Rouleau reveals that Manifest Destiny was a global process that extended far beyond U.S. terrestrial borders and into the vast reaches of the Atlantic and Pacific. He shows that long before the late nineteenth-century push for global empire, antebellum sailors were critical nonstate actors who-as writers, laborers, minstrel show performers, traders, and violent defenders of white American masculinity-shaped the course of U.S. diplomacy and remade the meaning of race and gender worldwide."-Stacey L. Smith, Oregon State University, author of Frontiers of Freedom: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, "With Sails Whitening Every Sea is an excellent scholarly monograph. . . . Clearly organized andwell written, the book will appeal primarily to a specialized and scholarly audience because of the author's tendency to use imposing words and terms. In summary,this is a first rate study which adds to our understandingof the way in which American sailors and whalershelped shape Americans' views of the world and American international relations."--John H. Schroeder, American Historical Review (February 2016), "With Sails Whitening Every Sea is an excellent scholarly monograph. . . . Clearly organized andwell written, the book will appeal primarily to a specialized and scholarly audience because of the author's tendency to use imposing words and terms. In summary,this is a first rate study which adds to our understandingof the way in which American sailors and whalershelped shape Americans' views of the world and American international relations."-John H. Schroeder, American Historical Review (February 2016), Rouleau points out--provocatively and persuasively--that much of what antebellum Americans knew of the world was filtered 'through maritime mediation' (p. 34). Seafarers' letters, memoirs and reports from abroad were not just the stuff of later romanticized remembrances of the 'days of sail'; rather, they were essential sources of commercial and ethnographic information as the American imagination chased American commerce around the globe.... With Sails Whitening Every Sea handles well the tremendous complexity of the subject matter. All of the categories discussed--gender, race, class--were moving targets, all the more so at sea, and historians are richer for Rouleau's careful and sophisticated examination of his subject., "Brian Rouleau's book is an important addition to the growing field of literature and scholarship that seeks to more completely assess the role of American mariners in the Early Republic."--Timothy G. Lynch, Sea History (Winter 2015-16), "The major strength of Rouleau's work is that he does not limit his scope to either the Pacific or Atlantic. Instead he sets out to examine a global maritime empire."--Antony Adler, H-War (June 2015), "With Sails Whitening Every Sea challenges a popular view concerning the romance of American maritime history. It examines this image through the lens of sociology and effectively casts nostalgia and sentimentality upon the rocks of ruthless racist reality. . . . [T]his is a valuable book worthy of being added to any maritime historian's library."--Louis Arthur Norton, The Northern Mariner(July 2015), "Brian Rouleau's new book forces usto reconsider the ways in which foreign relations work. Ordinary people, it turnsout, have had an enormous impact on international affairs. Rouleau's provocative book explains how common maritime laborers shapedthe contours of America's entanglements with foreign peoples during the nineteenthcentury.Rouleau has a true talent for seeing the larger dimensions of everyday interactions."--Christopher P. Magra, Diplomatic History, "With Sails Whitening Every Sea challenges a popular view concerning the romance of American maritime history. It examines this image through the lens of sociology and effectively casts nostalgia and sentimentality upon the rocks of ruthless racist reality. . . . [T]his is a valuable book worthy of being added to any maritime historian's library."-Louis Arthur Norton, The Northern Mariner(July 2015), With Sails Whitening Every Sea challenges a popular view concerning the romance of American maritime history. It examines this image through the lens of sociology and effectively casts nostalgia and sentimentality upon the rocks of ruthless racist reality.... [T]his is a valuable book worthy of being added to any maritime historian's library., "The major strength of Rouleau's work is that he does not limit his scope to either the Pacific or Atlantic. Instead he sets out to examine a global maritime empire."-Antony Adler, H-War (June 2015), "Rouleau points out - provocatively and persuasively - that much of what antebellum Americansknew of the world was filtered 'through maritime mediation' (p. 34). Seafarers' letters, memoirsand reports from abroad were not just the stuff of later romanticized remembrances of the 'days ofsail', rather, they were essential sources of commercial and ethnographic information as theAmerican imagination chased American commerce around the globe. . . . With Sails Whitening Every Sea handles well thetremendous complexity of the subject matter. All of the categories discussed - gender, race, class- were moving targets, all the more so at sea, and historians are richer for Rouleau's careful and sophisticated examination of his subject."--Matthew Taylor Raffety, International Journal of Maritime History (November 2015), Brian Rouleau's book is an important addition to the growing field of literature and scholarship that seeks to more completely assess the role of American mariners in the Early Republic., "American sailors roamed the globe by the hundreds of thousands in the decades before the Civil War, yet they've been all but excluded from our histories of early U.S. foreign relations. Brian Rouleau's smart, probing, and tough-minded book will permanently change that."--Brian DeLay, University of California, Berkeley, "American sailors roamed the globe by the hundreds of thousands in the decades before the Civil War, yet they've been all but excluded from our histories of early U.S. foreign relations. Brian Rouleau's smart, probing, and tough-minded book will permanently change that."-Brian DeLay, University of California, Berkeley
Dewey Edition
23
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
331.7/61387097309034
Table Of Content
Introduction: "Born to Rule the Seas"1. Schoolhouses Afloat2. Jim Crow Girdles the Globe3. Maritime Destiny as Manifest Destiny4. A Maritime Empire of Moral Depravity5. An Intimate History of Early America's Maritime Empire6. Making Do at the Margins of Maritime EmpireEpilogue: Out of the Sailor's Den, into the Tourist Trap Notes Index
Synopsis
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., 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., 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.
LC Classification Number
G540.R68 2014
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