Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
30.03.2019
Verlag
Alpha EditionsSeitenzahl
536
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/3,1 cm
Gewicht
861 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-93-5360-467-7
From the end of the Revolution to the brink of the Civil War, New England turned its face to the ocean. The restless sea made Massachusetts. In his sweeping seafaring history book, Samuel Eliot Morison traces how a coastal commonwealth became a maritime power, following the complete Massachusetts maritime history from 1783 to 1860. Drawing on ships' logs and merchants' papers, he reconstructs the Massachusetts shipping trade in the early American Republic era, the rise of age of sail commerce, and the changing patterns of Atlantic trade routes history as empires, wars and technology reshaped the world. Harbours and shipyards from Boston and Salem to other 19th century Massachusetts ports emerge as vivid stages where risk, ambition and seamanship defined a people. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Morison, later a celebrated naval historian and Pulitzer Prize laureate, shapes rigorous research into narrative history with an almost novelistic sense of character and place, making complex economic currents clear without losing the salt in the air. As New England history nonfiction it remains both authoritative and intensely readable: for history students, for maritime enthusiasts and for naval history readers seeking depth and colour. Equally, collectors will recognise a foundational study for any classic maritime history collection, a work that illuminates how seafaring enterprise, coastal communities and national identity intertwined along the Atlantic seaboard.
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