Jack Tar vs. John Bull: The Role of New York's Seamen in Precipitating the Revolution

ISBN-13: 9780815327882 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 200 str.

Jesse Lemisch

Opis

Explores the role of merchant seamen in sparking the struggle for US independence in such incidents as impressment riots, the Stamp Act Riot, and the Battle of Golden Hill, and describes the social world of the seamen to explain their actions. Lemisch is considered a pioneer of New Left history and

Recenzje

"...a very well-crafted price of work that reminds historians that it is possible to be sympathetic to those in subordinate positions in society without idealizing them." -- Labor History
"..refreshing both for its meticulous research and the contribution it makes to our understanding of the complex relationship between class conflicts within the British colonies and the colonial struggle for independence from Great Britain." -- Against the Current
"...grounded in a remarkably exhaustive and creative use of primary and secondary resources." -- New Politics

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Who Was Jack Tar?; Chapter 2 Impressment of Seamen in Colonial New York; Chapter 3 Jack Tar on the Beach: The Birth of the Mob; Chapter 4 Jack Tar in the Streets: The Stamp Act Crisis; Chapter 5 Jack Tar in the Streets: Before the Mast of Liberty, 1766–1770;

O autorze

Jesse Lemisch Department of History John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York