Liberty on the Waterfront – American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution

Liberty on the Waterfront\nby Paul A. Gilje\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Paul A. Gilje\nTitle: Liberty on the Waterfront\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of the Americas\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press\nPublication year: 2007\nISBN-13: 9780812219937\nISBN-10: 0812219937\nRRP: \u00A327.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThrough careful research and colorful accounts, historian Paul A. Gilje discovers what liberty meant to an important group of common men in American society, those who lived and worked on the waterfront and aboard ships. In the process he reveals that the idealized vision of liberty associated with the Founding Fathers had a much more immediate and complex meaning than previously thought.\nIn Liberty on the Waterfront: American Mari.