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Paul A. Gilje, Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution.(Book review)
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Labour/Le Travail
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March 22, 2008
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- Way, Peter
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Paul A. Gilje, Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2004)
PAUL GILJE APPROACHES maritime labour from a different tack than historians concerned with the work regimens and class relations of the sea, or those who view mariners collectively as a plebeian leviathan that worried merchant capital. Instead adopting the concept of liberty as his compass, he charts a course for the heart of the American maritime world. Rather than engaging the idea as an abstract notion as espoused by the American elite, the book "examines the meaning of 'liberty' to those who lived and worked in ports and ...