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Author Glenn, Myra C.

Title Jack Tar's story : the autobiographies and memoirs of sailors in antebellum America / Myra C. Glenn.

Publication Info. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 194 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 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 expose;s of flogging; 5. Straddling conflicting notions of manhood: sailor narratives as stories of roistering and religious conversion; Afterword.
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Subject United States. Navy -- Sea life -- History -- 19th century.
United States. Navy.
Seafaring life.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Seafaring life -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States.
Sailors -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Sailors.
Social conditions.
Sailors' writings, English -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Sailors' writings, English.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Glenn, Myra C. Jack Tar's story. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521193689 (DLC) 2010029539 (OCoLC)567162663
ISBN 9780511789922 (electronic book)
0511789920 (electronic book)
0511787316 (electronic book)
9780511787317 (electronic book)