Young men and the sea: yankee seafarers in the age of sail

"Drawing on records of several thousand seamen and their voyages from Salem, Massachusetts, Young Men and the Sea offers a social history of seafaring in the colonial and early national period. In what sort of families were sailors raised? When did they go to sea? What were their chances of dea...

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Hauptverfasser: Vickers, Daniel (VerfasserIn), Walsh, Vince (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven [u.a.] Yale Univ. Press 2005
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Zusammenfassung:"Drawing on records of several thousand seamen and their voyages from Salem, Massachusetts, Young Men and the Sea offers a social history of seafaring in the colonial and early national period. In what sort of families were sailors raised? When did they go to sea? What were their chances of death? Whom did they marry, and how did their wives operate households in their absence? Answering these and many other questions, this book is destined to become a classic of American social and maritime history."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XIII, 336 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:0300100671