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Eastward of Good Hope : Early America in a Dangerous World
Title
Eastward of Good Hope : Early America in a Dangerous World / Dane A. Morrison.
ISBN
9781421442372
9781421442365
Publication
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource (336 pages).
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Description based on print version record.
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Summary
"Reexamining Yankee "voyages of commerce and discovery" into distant seas in the decades after the War of Independence, this book reveals how "news from the East" carried in ships logs and mariners' news reports, journals, and correspondence shaped Americans' understanding of the world as a map of dangerous and incoherent sites. Focusing on four representative arenas-the Ottoman Empire, China, India, and the Great South Sea-and drawing on recent scholarship in global ethnohistory, the author recounts how reports of cannibal encounters, shipboard massacres, shipwrecks, tropical fever, and other tragedies in distant seas led Americans to imagine each region as a distinct set of threats to their republic"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Coffee house chatter
Unholy lands
"Unfeeling Mandarins" in Canton and Macau
Hindoos and Fakirs in India
Cannibal isles : the Great South Sea.
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