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Young men and the sea : Yankee seafarers in the age of sail by Algernon Charles Swinburne (editor); Jerome McGann (editor); Charles L. Sligh (editor) is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Two centuries of American maritime history, in which the Atlantic Ocean remained the great frontier Westward expansion has been the great narrative of the first two centuries of American history, but as historian Daniel Vickers demonstrates here, the horizon extended in all directions. For those who lived along the Atlantic coast, it was the East--and the Atlantic Ocean--that beckoned. While historical and fictional accounts have tended to stress the exceptional circumstances or psychological co
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- Author
- Algernon Charles Swinburne (editor); Jerome McGann (editor); Charles L. Sligh (editor)
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300150261
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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