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Author:

Morrison, Dane Anthony, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89613642

Title:

True Yankees : the South Seas and the discovery of American identity / Dane A. Morrison.

Edition:

Johns Hopkins paperback edition.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xxii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

National characteristics, American--History.
Ship captains--United States--History.
Merchant mariners--United States--History.
Oceania--American.--American.
Travelers' writings, American--History and criticism.
Discovery and exploration, American.
Merchant mariners.
National characteristics, American.
Ship captains.
Travelers' writings, American.
Oceania.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

"The Johns Hopkins University Press Director's Circle book for 2014"--Page [i]. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Samuel Shaw's polite reception, 1784-1794 -- First interlude : "Tempestuous seas of liberty," 1785-1790 -- Amasa Delano opens the Great South Sea, 1790-1820 -- Second interlude : "The strangers were Americans" -- Edmund Fanning's "Voyages round the world," 1792-1833 -- Third interlude : "How t'other side looked" -- Harriett Low in Manila and Macao, 1829-1834 -- Fourth interlude : "The estimation of all good men" -- Robert Bennet Forbes and the first opium war, 1838-1840.

Series:

Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 131st series, 1

ISBN:

1421415429
9781421415420
9781421422572
1421422573

OCLC:

(OCoLC)961410001

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)