{"product_id":"eastward-of-good-hope-9781421442365","title":"Eastward of Good Hope","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow did news from the Eastcarried in ship logs and mariners' reports, journals, and correspondenceshape early Americans' understanding of the world as a map of dangerous and incoherent sites?Winner of the John Lyman Book Award by the North American Society for Oceanic HistoryFreed from restrictions of British mercantilism in the years following the War of Independence, Yankee merchants embarked on numerous voyages of commerce and discovery into distant seas. Through the news from the East, carried in mariners' reports, ship logs, journals, and correspondence, Americans at home imagined the world as a map of dangerous and deranged places. This was a world that was profoundly disordered, hobbled by tyranny and oppression or steeped in chaos and anarchy, often deadly, always uncertain, unpredictable, and unstable, yet amenable to American influence. Focusing on four representative arenasthe Ottoman Empire, China, India, and the Great South Sea (collectively, the East Indies, Oceana, and t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e...[A] fascinating study of the US's emerging self-identity during the Early Republic combines global history with an analysis of print culture.\u003cbr\u003e—D.M. Corlett, Arizona State University, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Coffeehouse Chatter\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Unholy Lands\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. \"Unfeeling Mandarins\" in Canton and Macau\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Hindoos and Fakirs in India\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Cannibal Isles\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Echoes\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408143917399,"sku":"9781421442365","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/eastward-of-good-hope-9781421442365","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}