Clouds of White Sail
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-2603-5 (ISBN)
Fishermen from New England and the Canadian Maritime Provinces once made a reputation by driving their schooners under a full press of sail in a howling gale on their run into market, fueling the popular imagination with romantic images of Captains Courageous. But by the early twentieth century, they seemed destined to go the way of workers ashore, who had been displaced by new technologies. Then fate intervened in the form of the International Fishermen’s Races. Clouds of White Sail tells the story of how schoonermen were able to reignite the public’s love affair with the beauty of their ships and the romance of the sea and hold onto their way of life in a way that few other workers were able. Michael Wayne Santos’s narrative takes a page from the fo’c’sle traditions from which he draws; like the men whose saga he immortalizes, he not only loves a good story but also knows how to tell one.
Michael Santos is professor of history at the University of Lynchburg.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Romanticism and Reality: Fishermen as Workers and Heroes
Competition and Working Class Tradition among the Gloucestermen
Class, Community, and the Fishermen of Gloucester
The Early Races, 1886–1913
“Bucking the Inevitable”: The View from the United States
“Bucking the Inevitable”: The View from Canada
“Bona Fide Fishing Vessels”: The Early Races for the Halifax Herald Trophy, 1920–1921
Forgetting Principle: Nationalism, Civic Pride, And the Quest for the Trophy, 1922
Boosterism, Sentimentality, and Working Class Sport: Racing Between 1923 and 1929
“Clouds of White Sail”: Romanticism and the End of Racing in the 1930s
Epilogue: Continuing Legacies
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
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Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 154 x 219 mm |
Gewicht | 331 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-7936-2603-0 / 1793626030 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-7936-2603-5 / 9781793626035 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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