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Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution
Citizen Sailors follows merchant seamen as Americans struggled to define national citizenship after independence. Nathan Perl-Rosenthal shows how sailors, officials, and diplomats created practical systems for identifying U.S. citizens amid war, impressment, and international trade. The book demonstrates that citizenship emerged not only from constitutions and courtrooms but also from documents, personal testimony, and dangerous encounters across the Atlantic world.
- Publisher
- Belknap Press
- Publication date
- 2015-10-12
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN
- 9780674286153
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1. Forgotten Revolutionaries Fueled the War—and Created Citizenship (AAR S1E34)Checked
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