The Republic Afloat: Law, Honor, and Citizenship in Maritime America by Matthew Taylor Raffety

The Republic Afloat: Law, Honor, and Citizenship in Maritime America

Matthew Taylor Raffety

277 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

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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...

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