Jack Tar

Author : Myra C. Glenn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139490184
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jack Tar's Story written by Myra C. Glenn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Haitian Revolution, South America's wars of independence, British impressment, flogging on the high seas, roistering, and religious conversion. This book straddles different fields of scholarship and suggests how their concerns intersect or resonate with each other: the history of print culture, the study of autobiographical writing, and the historiography of seafaring life and of masculinity in antebellum America.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jack Tar's Songster written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John FAIRBURN
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fairburn's Naval Songster, or Jack Tar's Chest of Conviviality for 1812, containing a ... collection of ... Sea Songs. ... Embellished with a frontispiece of the eccentric humour of ducking and shaving ... when crossing the Line written by John FAIRBURN and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Fairburn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fairburn's Naval Songster, Or, Jack Tar's Chest of Conviviality for 1806. Being an Excellent Cargo of Celebrated, Popular, and Choice Sea-songs, Intended to Commemorate the Last Glorious Victory, Death and Memory of ... Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson .. written by John Fairburn and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul A. Gilje
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521762359
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Swear like a Sailor written by Paul A. Gilje and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores American maritime world, including cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, and material culture.

Author : Jesse Lemisch
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815327882
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jack Tar Vs. John Bull written by Jesse Lemisch and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Stephen Taylor
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300252617
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sons of the Waves written by Stephen Taylor and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant telling of the history of the common seaman in the age of sail, and his role in Britain’s trade, exploration, and warfare British maritime history in the age of sail is full of the deeds of officers like Nelson but has given little voice to plain, "illiterate" seamen. Now Stephen Taylor draws on published and unpublished memoirs, letters, and naval records, including court-martials and petitions, to present these men in their own words. In this exhilarating account, ordinary seamen are far from the hapless sufferers of the press gangs. Proud and spirited, learned in their own fashion, with robust opinions and the courage to challenge overweening authority, they stand out from their less adventurous compatriots. Taylor demonstrates how the sailor was the engine of British prosperity and expansion up to the Industrial Revolution. From exploring the South Seas with Cook to establishing the East India Company as a global corporation, from the sea battles that made Britain a superpower to the crisis of the 1797 mutinies, these "sons of the waves" held the nation’s destiny in their calloused hands.

Author : Paul A. Gilje
Publisher : Maritime
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pirates, Jack Tar, and Memory written by Paul A. Gilje and published by Maritime. This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These nine essays explore new directions and ways to pursue the elusive Jack Tar--the common sailor in the early modern world. We see him as a pirate, learn something of the ships he sailed, and share his experience in the Revolutionary War and War of 1812. We also see him as a spinner of yarns--a great story teller--helping to mold his own and our national identity, while contributing to the development of a unique American literature. We see some Jacks seeking social mobility. We see others challenging authority aboard ships and during shipwrecks. While Jack in some ways remains elusive, and it is impossible to calculate his movements, as sailor Nathaniel Ames wrote, these essays move us closer to an understanding of his eccentric path.

Author : Lesley Adkins
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0748112111
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jack Tar written by Lesley Adkins and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An enthralling book' Sunday Telegraph 'Fascinating' Sunday Times The Royal Navy to which Admiral Lord Nelson sacrificed his life depended on thousands of sailors and marines to man the great wind-powered wooden warships. Drawn from all over Britain and beyond, often unwillingly, these ordinary men made the navy invincible through skill, courage and sheer determination. They cast a long shadow, with millions of their descendants alive today, and many of their everyday expressions, such as 'skyscraper' and 'loose cannon', continuing to enrich our language. Yet their contribution is frequently overlooked, while the officers became celebrities. JACK TAR gives these forgotten men a voice in an exciting, enthralling, often unexpected and always entertaining picture of what their life was really like during this age of sail. Through personal letters, diaries and other manuscripts, the emotions and experiences of these people are explored, from the dread of press-gangs, shipwreck and disease, to the exhilaration of battle, grog, prize money and prostitutes. JACK TAR is an authoritative and gripping account that will be compulsive reading for anyone wanting to discover the vibrant and sometimes stark realities of this wooden world at war.

Author : Colin D. Howell
Publisher : Fredericton, N.B. : Acadiensis Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jack Tar in History written by Colin D. Howell and published by Fredericton, N.B. : Acadiensis Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: