Antebellum at Sea: Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America

by Jason Berger

In the antebellum years, the Western world's symbolic realities were expanded and challenged as merchant, military, and scientific activity moved into Pacific and Arctic waters. In Antebellum at Sea, Jason Berger explores the roles that early nineteenth-century maritime narratives played in conceptualizing economic and social transitions in the developing global market system and what these chronicles disclose about an era marked by immense...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816677077
• ISBN13: 9780816677078
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"