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Rites and Passages

Name: Rites and Passages
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521433365
Price: 131.48 EUR
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The Experience of American Whaling, 1830-1870

Автор: Margaret S. Creighton

Език:

Корици: С твърди корици

Издател: Cambridge University Press

Наличност: Външен склад

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This book contributes to what has recently been called a 'new social history of seafaring'. This new...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Margaret S. Creighton

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

1995

страници

250

EAN

9780521433365

ISBN

0521433363

Enbook ID

02062469

Издател

Cambridge University Press

Теглоt

532

Размери

156 x 234 x 16

Пълно описание

This book contributes to what has recently been called a 'new social history of seafaring'. This new maritime history places sailors themselves at the center, not the periphery, of the maritime past, and explores ways that the history of the sea and the history of the shore have intersected. It differs from traditional accounts which celebrate exotic trades, powerful merchants, maritime technologies, and military exploits. Drawn on the evidence of nearly two hundred ship logs and sailors' diaries, Rites and Passages examines American whalemen at the height of the whaling industry in the 1800s and argues that whaling life and culture was shaped by both the American mainland and by the exigencies of ocean life. Unlike other published accounts of seafaring, this work brings gender into the maritime equation, not only with a discussion of the ways that women figured in this male world, but also with an examination of the ways that seafaring served as a rite of passage into manhood.