| Jack Tar's Story Contributor(s): Glenn, Myra C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521193680 ISBN-13: 9780521193689 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $77.89 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General |
| Dewey: 387.509 |
| LCCN: 2010029539 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (0.92 lbs) 206 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 the stories sailors told. It focuses on how mariner authors remembered/interpreted various events and experiences, including the War of 1812, the Haitian Revolution, South America's wars of independence, British impressment, flogging on the high seas, roistering, and religious conversion. This book straddles different fields of scholarship and suggests how their concerns intersect or resonate with each other: the history of print culture, the study of autobiographical writing, and the historiography of seafaring life and of masculinity in antebellum America. |
Contributor Bio(s): Glenn, Myra C.: - 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. |