Citizenship, Subversion, and Surveillance in U.S. Ports: Sailors Ashore

ISBN-13: 9783031456176 / Angielski

Johnathan Thayer

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Introduction: Sailors Ashore.- Chapter 1. Sailors’ Wardship, Maritime Ministry, and the Contest for New York City’s Sailortown, 1843-1915.- Chapter 2. Merchant Seamen and the Parameters of Involuntary Servitude: The Arago Deserters and the United States Supreme Court, 1895-1897.- Chapter 3. “Pandemonium on the Quay”: The Titanic Disaster, the Olympic Mutiny, and the 1912 Transport Workers’ Federation Strike.- Chapter 4. The 1915 Seamen’s Act: Maritime Labor and Progressive Era Maritime Reform.- Chapter 5. Deserters, Stowaways, and Mala Fide Sailors: Merchant Seamen and the Shaping of U.S. Immigration Policy, 1917-1936.- Chapter 6. The “Million-Dollar Home for Sailors,” Industrial Maritime Unionism, and Sailors’ Agency in New York City’s Sailortown, 1930-1932.- Chapter 7. Conclusion: Currents, Past and Future.

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Johnathan Thayer is Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY). 

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tant Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY). 
tant Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY). 
tant Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY). 
tant Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY). 
tant Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY).