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JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC (Winter 2017) Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution. By Nathan Perl-Rosenthal. (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp 372. Cloth, $23.90.) Reviewed by Christine E. Sears As Jesse Lemisch revealed in the 1960s, Jack Tar was not a ârebel without a cause.â1 Since then, scholars have struggled to identify who Jack Tar was and what cause or causes he embraced. Nathan Perl-Rosenthal contextualizes sailorsâ early American republic world. He does not see sailors as united by material conditions, labor arrangements, or class conï¬ict as have Marcus Rediker and Peter Linebaugh. Neither were seamen primarily motivated by revolutionary ideology. Like the sailors in Paul Giljeâs work, Perl-Rosenthalâs Jack Tars are motivated by the need to make a living in a complex and war-torn Atlantic world, which put seafarers in the âmidst of a struggle for national citizenshipâ (270). In his ambitious and compellingly written ï¬rst monograph, Perl-Rosenthal argues that American merchant seamen ânot only became attached to the state earlier and more stronglyâ than others, but also played a unique role in deï¬ning American citizenship (5). U.S., British, and French documents led Nathan Perl-Rosenthal âto see merchant
Journal of the Early Republic – University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Oct 31, 2017
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