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<p>Through 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.<br><br>In <i>Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution</i>, life aboa
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- Author
- United States. Navy.; Gilje, Paul A.; United States. Navy
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press, University Presses Marketing [distributor]
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780812202021
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Transportation
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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