True Yankees: The South Seas and the Discovery of American Identity
Dane A. Morrison, "True Yankees: The South Seas and the Discovery of American Identity "
English | ISBN: 1421415429 | 2014 | 280 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
English | ISBN: 1421415429 | 2014 | 280 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
After breaking free from British rule, American identity had more to do with sailing to the East than trekking into the West.
Honorable Mention, US Maritime History, John Lyman Book Awards
With American independence came the freedom to sail anywhere in the world under a new flag. During the years between the Treaty of Paris and the Treaty of Wangxi, Americans first voyaged past the Cape of Good Hope, reaching the ports of Algiers and the bazaars of Arabia, the markets of India and the beaches of Sumatra, the villages of Cochin, China, and the factories of Canton. Their South Seas voyages of commerce and discovery introduced the infant nation to the world and the world to what the Chinese, Turks, and others dubbed the “new people.”
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