Voyages
Subtitle: documents in American maritime history, Volume I, 1492-1865
By: edited by Joshua M. Smith and the National Maritime Historical Society.
Contributors: Smith, Joshua M.; National Maritime Historical Society (U.S.)
Series: New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780813033044
Subjects: Navigation -- United States -- History -- Sources; Sailing ships -- United States -- History -- Sources; Merchant marine -- United States -- History -- Sources; Voyages and travels -- History -- Sources; United States -- History, Naval -- Sources
Genres: Sources.
Description: "This first of the two-volume Voyages covers the American maritime experience from the discovery of the continent to the end of the Civil War. Published in cooperation with the National Maritime Historical Society, the selections chosen for this anthology of primary texts and images focus on the age of sail on the Atlantic and Pacific, and on the high seas and inland rivers. Each example is linked to the larger context of American history, including issues of gender, race, power, labor, and the environment."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Collection of edited historical documents, and companion volume to Voyages, The age of engines.

Includes bibliographical references.