Jack Tar's Story: The Autobiographies and Memoirs of Sailors in Antebellum America

by Myra C. Glenn

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110769325X
• ISBN13: 9781107693258
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"