American Sanctuary Mutiny Martyrdom And National Identity In The Age Of Revolution A Roger Ekirch by A. Roger Ekirch 9780307379900, 9781101871737, 0307379906, 1101871733 instant download after payment.

From "one of the most wide-ranging and imaginative historians in America today; there is no one else quite like him in the profes­sion" (Gordon S. Wood)—a dazzling and original work of history.
A. Roger Ekirch's American Sanctuary begins in 1797 with the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy—on the British frigate HMS Hermione, four thousand miles from England's shores, off the western coast of Puerto Rico. In the midst of the most storied epoch in British seafaring history, the mutiny struck at the very heart of military authority and at Britain's hierarchical social order. Revolution was in the air: America had won its War of Independence, the French Revolution was still unfolding, and a ferocious rebellion loomed in Ireland, with countless dissidents already arrested.
Most of the Hermione mutineers had scattered throughout the North Atlantic; one of them, Jonathan Robbins, had made his way to American shores, and...