{"product_id":"on-the-waves-of-empire-u-s-imperialism-and-merchant-sailors-18721924-9780252045165","title":"On the Waves of Empire  U.S. Imperialism and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eThe Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cp\u003e Introduction: The Seams of Empire \u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Leak in the Ship of State”: Maritime Labor Reform and U.S. Imperial Expansion, 1872-1900 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Does Exclusion Follow the Flag? Imperial Labor Mobilization, Domestic Organized Labor, and the Emergence of a U.S. Metropole, 1902-1908 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 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 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Agents of Empire: Merchant Sailors, the Great War, and the New American Merchant Marine, 1898-1919 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e They Always Choose Exclusion: Internal Dissent, Postwar U.S. Maritime Policy, and the Fall of the Sailors Unions, 1915-1924 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e Conclusion \u003cp\u003e Notes \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400458576215,"sku":"9780252045165","price":68.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252045165.jpg?v=1730470730","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/on-the-waves-of-empire-u-s-imperialism-and-merchant-sailors-18721924-9780252045165","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}