Paul A Gilje

To Swear Like a Sailor

Maritime Culture in America, 1750-1850

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores American maritime world, including cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, and material culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 153mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9780521762359
• ISBN-10: 0521762359
• Artikelnr.: 43853064

Autorenporträt

Paul Gilje is a George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the University of Oklahoma. His book Liberty on the Waterfront (2003) won the best book award from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. He is the author or editor of ten other books, including, most recently, Free Trade and Sailors' Rights in the War of 1812 (2013). He has lectured throughout the United States and in Europe and has received numerous grants to support his research. In 2009¿10, he served as President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. To swear like a sailor
2. The language of Jack Tar
3. The logbook of memory
4. Spinning yarns
5. Songs of the sailorman
6. The pirates' own book
7. Tar-stained images
Epilogue. The sea chest.