The Republic afloat : law, honor, and citizenship in maritime America /

In the years before the Civil War, many Americans saw the sea as a world apart, an often violent and insular culture governed by its own definitions of honor and ruled by its own authorities. The truth, however, is that legal cases that originated at sea had a tendency to come ashore and force the n...

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Main Authors: Raffety, Matthew Taylor, Raffety, Matthew Taylor, 1972- (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 2013
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2013]
Chicago ; London : [2013]
Series:American beginnings, 1500-1900
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