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Book SynopsisTrade 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 RightTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: The Seams of Empire
- A Leak in the Ship of State”: Maritime Labor Reform and U.S. Imperial Expansion, 1872-1900
- Does Exclusion Follow the Flag? Imperial Labor Mobilization, Domestic Organized Labor, and the Emergence of a U.S. Metropole, 1902-1908
- 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
- Agents of Empire: Merchant Sailors, the Great War, and the New American Merchant Marine, 1898-1919
- They Always Choose Exclusion: Internal Dissent, Postwar U.S. Maritime Policy, and the Fall of the Sailors Unions, 1915-1924
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
