To Swear Like a Sailor

Maritime Culture in America, 1750-1850
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-521-76235-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 394 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 667 g

Anyone could swear like a sailor! Within the larger culture, sailors had pride of place in swearing. But how they swore and the reasons for their bad language were not strictly wedded to maritime things. Instead, sailor swearing, indeed all swearing in this period, was connected to larger developments. This book traces the interaction between the maritime and mainstream world in the United States while examining cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, images, and material goods. To Swear Like a Sailor offers insight into the character of Jack Tar - the common seaman - and into the early republic. It illuminates the cultural connections between Great Britain and the United States and the appearance of a distinct American national identity. The book explores the emergence of sentimental notions about the common man - through the guise of the sailor - appearing on stage, in song, in literature, and in images.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gilje, Paul A

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Schifffahrt
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. To swear like a sailor; 2. The language of Jack Tar; 3. The logbook of memory; 4. Spinning yarns; 5. Songs of the sailorman; 6. The pirates' own book; 7. Tar-stained images; Epilogue. The sea chest.

Über Autor(innen)

Gilje, Paul A
Paul Gilje is a George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the University of Oklahoma. His book Liberty on the Waterfront (2003) won the best book award from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. He is the author or editor of ten other books, including, most recently, Free Trade and Sailors' Rights in the War of 1812 (2013). He has lectured throughout the United States and in Europe and has received numerous grants to support his research. In 2009-10, he served as President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.