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True Yankees - The South Seas and the Discovery of American Identity (Paperback)
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True Yankees - The South Seas and the Discovery of American Identity (Paperback)
Series: The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
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With American independence came the freedom to sail anywhere in the
world under a new flag. During the years between the Treaty of
Paris and the Treaty of Wangxi, Americans first voyaged past the
Cape of Good Hope, reaching the ports of Algiers and the bazaars of
Arabia, the markets of India and the beaches of Sumatra, the
villages of Cochin, China, and the factories of Canton. Their South
Seas voyages of commerce and discovery introduced the infant nation
to the world and the world to what the Chinese, Turks, and others
dubbed the "new people." Drawing on private journals, letters,
ships' logs, memoirs, and newspaper accounts, Dane A. Morrison's
True Yankees traces America's earliest encounters on a global stage
through the exhilarating experiences of five Yankee seafarers.
Merchant Samuel Shaw spent a decade scouring the marts of China and
India for goods that would captivate the imaginations of his
countrymen. Mariner Amasa Delano toured much of the Pacific hunting
seals. Explorer Edmund Fanning circumnavigated the globe, touching
at various Pacific and Indian Ocean ports of call. In 1829,
twenty-year-old Harriett Low reluctantly accompanied her merchant
uncle and ailing aunt to Macao, where she recorded trenchant
observations of expatriate life. And sea captain Robert Bennet
Forbes's last sojourn in Canton coincided with the eruption of the
First Opium War. How did these bold voyagers approach and do
business with the people in the region, whose physical appearance,
practices, and culture seemed so strange? And how did native men
and women-not to mention the European traders who were in direct
competition with the Americans-regard these upstarts who had fought
off British rule? The accounts of these adventurous travelers
reveal how they and hundreds of other mariners and expatriates
influenced the ways in which Americans defined themselves, thereby
creating a genuinely brash national character-the "true Yankee."
Readers who love history and stories of exploration on the high
seas will devour this gripping tale.
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