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By Myra C. Glenn

Jack Tar's tale examines the autobiographies and memoirs of antebellum American sailors to discover contested meanings of manhood and nationalism within the early republic. it's the first learn to take advantage of different types of institutional resources, together with team lists, ships' logs, impressment files, to rfile the tales sailors instructed. It specializes in how mariner authors remembered/interpreted a number of occasions and reports, together with the battle of 1812, the Haitian Revolution, South America's wars of independence, British impressment, flogging at the excessive seas, roistering, and non secular conversion. This publication straddles assorted fields of scholarship and indicates how their issues intersect or resonate with one another: the heritage of print tradition, the research of autobiographical writing, and the historiography of seafaring lifestyles and of masculinity in antebellum America.

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