| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 336 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Landsmen on the water : New England, 1620-1645 -- Salem's first mariners, 1645-1690 -- The eighteenth century : sailors at sea -- The eighteenth century : sailor's careers -- The eighteenth century : maritime society ashore -- The nineteenth century -- Mastery and the maritime law -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
"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."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-318) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Seafaring life -- New England -- History
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Seafaring life -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History
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Sailors -- New England -- History
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Sailors -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History
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Sailors
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Seafaring life
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Seefahrer
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| SUBJECT |
Salem (Mass.) -- History, Naval
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New England -- History, Naval
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| Subject |
Massachusetts -- Salem
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New England
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Neuengland
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Massachusetts
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Naval history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Walsh, Vince
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| LC no. |
2004024094 |
| ISBN |
9780300150261 |
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0300150261 |
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