Jack Tar vs. John Bull

The Role of New York's Seamen in Precipitating the Revolution

By: Jesse Lemisch

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Hardcover | 1 June 1997 | Edition Number 1

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This classic study explores the role of merchant seamen in precipitating the American revolution. It analyzes the participation of seamen in impressment riots, the Stamp Act Riot, the Battle of Golden Hill, and other incidents. The book describes these events and explores the social world of the seamen, offering explanations for their actions. Focusing on the culture, politics, and experiences of early American seamen, this legendary study played an important role in the development of histories of the common people and has inspired generations of social and early American historians. Lemisch's later related article, "Jack Tar in the Streets," was named one of the ten most important articles ever published in the prestigious "William and Mary Quarterly. "Long unavailable, this edition includes an index and an appreciative foreword by Marcus Rediker, author of "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750"
(Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1962)

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..."a very well-crafted price of work that reminds historians that it is possible to be sympathetic to those in subordinate positions in society without idealizing them."-"Labor History .."refreshing both for its meticulous research and the contribution it makes to our understanding of the complex relationship between class conflicts within the British colonies and the colonial struggle for independence from Great Britain."-Against the Current ..."grounded in a remarkably exhaustive and creative use of primary and secondary resources."-New Politics

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Foreword
Preface
Who Was Jack Tar?	p. 3
Impressment of Seamen in Colonial New York	p. 13
"A Parsill of Raskills": August 1760	p. 13
Impressment	p. 16
Impressment in New York: The Early Period	p. 18
Impressment During the French and Indian War	p. 20
The Peace-Time War: New York vs. the Royal Navy	p. 26
Jack Tar's Life, Liberty, and Property	p. 31
Jack Tar on the Beach: The Birth of the Mob	p. 51
Jack Tar in the Streets: The Stamp Act Crisis	p. 73
Strange Ballast	p. 73
Riots: Left vs. Right	p. 78
We Will Have the Stamps!	p. 82
Who and Why	p. 88
Factions: Left vs. Left	p. 92
Nullification	p. 98
Jack Tar in the Streets: Before the Mast of Liberty, 1766-1770	p. 121
The British Army in New York	p. 122
Supplying the Army	p. 126
The Battle of Golden Hill	p. 131
Epilogue. Jack Tar and the American Revolution	p. 149
Bibliographical Note	p. 159
Selected Other Work by the Author	p. 171
Index	p. 177
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.

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