True Yankees (ePub)
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Drawing on private journals, letters, ships' logs, memoirs, and newspaper accounts,True Yankeestraces America's earliest encounters on a global stage through the exhilarating experiences of five Yankee seafarers. Merchant Samuel Shaw spent a decade scouring the marts of China and India for goods that would captivate the imaginations of his countrymen. Mariner Amasa Delano toured much of the Pacific hunting seals. Explorer Edmund Fanning circumnavigated the globe, touching at various Pacific and Indian Ocean ports of call. In 1829, twenty-year-old Harriett Low reluctantly accompanied her merchant uncle and ailing aunt to Macao, where she recorded trenchant observations of expatriate life. And sea captain Robert Bennet Forbes's last sojourn in Canton coincided with the eruption of the First Opium War.
How did these bold voyagers approach and do business with the people in the region, whose physical appearance, practices, and culture seemed so strange? And how did native men and women-not to mention the European traders who were in direct competition with the Americans-regard these upstarts who had fought off British rule? The accounts of these adventurous travelers reveal how they and hundreds of other mariners and expatriates influenced the ways in which Americans defined themselves, thereby creating a genuinely brash national character-the "true Yankee." Readers who love history and stories of exploration on the high seas will devour this gripping tale.
"The book is informative and entertaining, a rare combination. Highly recommended." -Choice
Dane A. Morrison is a professor of early American history at Salem State University. He is the author of A Praying People: Massachusett Acculturation and the Failure of the Puritan Mission, 1600¿1690, and the coeditor of Salem: Place, Myth and Memory and the World History Encyclopedia, volumes 11¿13: The Age of Global Contact.
- Autor: Dane A. Morrison
- 2014, Englisch
- Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
- ISBN-10: 1421415437
- ISBN-13: 9781421415437
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.12.2014
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