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“Riddell shows US sailors struggling for their own emancipation. Especially after 1898, he shows them also as fashioning themselves as white agents of empire. The potential for drama and tragedy is great, and fully realized, in this riveting book.”--David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Seams of Empire

  1. A Leak in the Ship of State”: Maritime Labor Reform and U.S. Imperial Expansion, 1872-1900
  2. Does Exclusion Follow the Flag? Imperial Labor Mobilization, Domestic Organized Labor, and the Emergence of a U.S. Metropole, 1902-1908
  3. Riding the Waves of Empire: Craft Unionism, the La Follette Seamen’s Act of 1915, and the Economic Dimensions of U.S. Imperial Power, 1908 -1915
  4. Agents of Empire: Merchant Sailors, the Great War, and the New American Merchant Marine, 1898-1919
  5. They Always Choose Exclusion: Internal Dissent, Postwar U.S. Maritime Policy, and the Fall of the Sailors Unions, 1915-1924
Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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      Publisher University of Illinois Press
      Published 18 July 2023
      ISBN-13 9780252045165
      978-0252045165
      ISBN-10 0252045165
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      “Riddell shows US sailors struggling for their own emancipation. Especially after 1898, he shows them also as fashioning themselves as white agents of empire. The potential for drama and tragedy is great, and fully realized, in this riveting book.”--David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments

      Introduction: The Seams of Empire

      1. A Leak in the Ship of State”: Maritime Labor Reform and U.S. Imperial Expansion, 1872-1900
      2. Does Exclusion Follow the Flag? Imperial Labor Mobilization, Domestic Organized Labor, and the Emergence of a U.S. Metropole, 1902-1908
      3. Riding the Waves of Empire: Craft Unionism, the La Follette Seamen’s Act of 1915, and the Economic Dimensions of U.S. Imperial Power, 1908 -1915
      4. Agents of Empire: Merchant Sailors, the Great War, and the New American Merchant Marine, 1898-1919
      5. They Always Choose Exclusion: Internal Dissent, Postwar U.S. Maritime Policy, and the Fall of the Sailors Unions, 1915-1924
      Conclusion

      Notes

      Bibliography

      Index

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