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  • True Yankees: The South Seas and the Discovery of American Identity 
     

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    Lieferstatus:   i.d.R. innert 14-24 Tagen versandfertig
    Veröffentlichung:  Februar 2017  
    Genre:  Geschichte / Politik / Kultur 
    ISBN:  9781421422572 
    EAN-Code: 
    9781421422572 
    Verlag:  Johns Hopkins University Press 
    Einband:  Kartoniert  
    Sprache:  English  
    Serie:  The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science  
    Dimensionen:  H 231 mm / B 153 mm / D 25 mm 
    Gewicht:  404 gr 
    Seiten:  280 
    Illustration:  26 Halftones, black and white 
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    Honorable Mention, US Maritime History, John Lyman Book Awards

    With American independence came the freedom to sail anywhere in the world under a new flag. During the years between the Treaty of Paris and the Treaty of Wangxi, Americans first voyaged past the Cape of Good Hope, reaching the ports of Algiers and the bazaars of Arabia, the markets of India and the beaches of Sumatra, the villages of Cochin, China, and the factories of Canton. Their South Seas voyages of commerce and discovery introduced the infant nation to the world and the world to what the Chinese, Turks, and others dubbed the "new people."

    Drawing on private journals, letters, ships' logs, memoirs, and newspaper accounts, Dane A. Morrison's True Yankees traces America's earliest encounters on a global stage through the exhilarating experiences of five Yankee seafarers. Merchant Samuel Shaw spent a decade scouring the marts of China and India for goods that would captivate the imaginations of his countrymen. Mariner Amasa Delano toured much of the Pacific hunting seals. Explorer Edmund Fanning circumnavigated the globe, touching at various Pacific and Indian Ocean ports of call. In 1829, twenty-year-old Harriett Low reluctantly accompanied her merchant uncle and ailing aunt to Macao, where she recorded trenchant observations of expatriate life. And sea captain Robert Bennet Forbes's last sojourn in Canton coincided with the eruption of the First Opium War.

    How did these bold voyagers approach and do business with the people in the region, whose physical appearance, practices, and culture seemed so strange? And how did native men and women--not to mention the European traders who were in direct competition with the Americans--regard these upstarts who had fought off British rule? The accounts of these adventurous travelers reveal how they and hundreds of other mariners and expatriates influenced the ways in which Americans defined themselves, thereby creating a genuinely brash national character--the "true Yankee." Readers who love history and stories of exploration on the high seas will devour this gripping tale.

    "Although part of US cultural and economic history, the role of long-distance sea trade in developing the nation's character and global outlook in the early national period has not been discussed until now. The book is informative and entertaining, a rare combination. Highly recommended."--Choice

    "Often gripping and always engaging. True Yankees makes a very real and highly insightful contribution to our understanding of early America's place within the Pacific world."--Journal of Pacific History

    "An excellent book contributing valuable information on America's early story. Anyone interested in the birth of our nation and how we entered into the world of commerce will find this a detailed resource."--Pirates and Privateers

    "A valuable contribution to our understanding of America's early encounters with the world."--American Studies

    "Educational, interesting, cleverly organized, and easy to read. Morrison presents an aspect of American seafaring and trading history that is commonly overlooked, yet still very significant."--The Northern Mariner

    Dane A. Morrison is a professor of early American history at Salem State University. He is the author of A Praying People: Massachusett Acculturation and the Failure of the Puritan Mission, 1600-1690 and the coeditor of Salem: Place, Myth and Memory and the World History Encyclopedia, volumes 11-13: The Age of Global Contact.

      
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