The early republic and the sea
Subtitle: essays on the naval and maritime history of the early United States
By: edited by William S. Dudley and Michael J. Crawford.
Contributors: Dudley, William S.; Crawford, Michael J.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Brassey's
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: United States. Navy -- History -- 18th century.; United States. Navy -- History -- 19th century.; Navigation -- United States -- History -- 18th century.; Navigation -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; United States -- History, Naval -- 18th century.; United states -- History, Naval -- 19th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part One: Maritime Commerce and the Sea Services; title: 1. The Naval Movement of the Confederation Era; title: Elizabeth M. Nuxoll; title: 2. Patterns of Northern New England Smuggling, 1789-1820; title: Joshua M. Smith; title: 3. Charting a New Course for the China Trade: The Late Eighteenth-Century American Model; title: Mary A. Y Gallagher; title: 4. The Lady Washington at Kushimoto, Japan, in 1791; title: Jim Mockford; title: 5. Daniel Caulkins's Voyage: An Incident of the Quasi-War; title: Richard C. Malley; title: 6. Lewis Warrington and the USS Peacock in the Sunda Strait, June 1815; title: Christine F Hughes; title: 7. War on the Slave Trade: Changing Fortunes in; title: Antebellum U.S. Courts of the Mid-Atlantic South; title: Peter G. Fish; title: Part Two: James Fenimore Cooper and the Birth of American Maritime Experience; title: 8. Enabling and Disabling the Lake Erie Discussion: James Fenimore Cooper and Alexander Slidell MacKenzie Respond to the Perry-Elliott Controversy; title: Hugh Egan; title: 9. Nelson Resartus: Legitimate Order in Cooper's Fleet Novel; title: Robert D. Madison; title: 10. Fact and Fiction: The Uses of Maritime History in Cooper's Afloat and Ashore; title: Thomas Philbrick; title: 11. Cooper as Passenger; title: Wayne Franklin.