| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 336 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-321) and index. |
| Contents |
Rural Scotland and the sea -- A mariner's life -- Sailor's hope -- Struggles for justice -- "Making property" -- California bound -- The return -- Persistence in adversity -- Reflections. |
| Summary |
Sailor's Hope provides a moving account of a multi-faceted man, tracking his engagement with the extraordinary changes occurring in the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds in the decades after the American and French Revolutions. William Cooper was born in poverty in industrializing Scotland. Without any formal education, he worked his way up through the British merchant marine to the position of captain on voyages linking Britain with Iberia and North America. |
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When Cooper decided to establish a home for his family, he leased land on Prince Edward Island, naming his farm "Sailor's Hope:' For most of his adult life, he played multiple roles ù Prince Edward Island politician and legislative emissary to the UK, husband, father, farmer, merchant, miller, captain, boat builder, and amateur scientist. When his sons sought to establish themselves in life, the family built a boat and sailed from Prince Edward Island to California. Cooper, like many of his nineteenth-century contemporaries, inhabited a larger world than that encompassed by national boundaries. --Book Jacket. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Cooper, William, 1786-1867.
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Cooper, William, 1786-1867. |
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Reformers -- Prince Edward Island -- Biography.
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Reformers. |
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Prince Edward Island. |
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Biographies.
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| Subject |
Legislators -- Prince Edward Island -- Biography.
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Legislators. |
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Land reform -- Prince Edward Island -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Prince Edward Island -- Biography.
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Prince Edward Island -- Politics and government -- To 1873. |
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Land reform. |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. |
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History. |
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HISTORY -- Canada -- General. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
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collective biographies.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bittermann, Rusty, 1951- Sailor's Hope. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2010 9780773537736 (OCoLC)630475282 |
| ISBN |
9780773581173 (electronic book) |
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0773581170 (electronic book) |
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9780773537736 |
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0773537732 |
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9780773537743 |
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0773537740 |
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