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Black Jacks
African American Seamen in the Age of Sail
Häftad, 1998
200 kr
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Few Americans, black or white, recognize the degree to which early African American history is a maritime history. W. Jeffrey Bolster shatters the myth that black seafaring in the age of sail was limited to the Middle Passage. Seafaring was one of the most significant occupations among both …
Mortal Sea
Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail
Häftad, 2014
265 kr
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Winner of the Bancroft PrizeA sweeping environmental history of the North Atlantic, The Mortal Sea reveals how centuries of fishing turned a rich ocean into an “exhausted sea” and offers a powerful cautionary tale about our precarious relationship with the natural world. Since the Viking ascendancy …