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Mr. McCaughey, Lehman 415 C
1. For September 3 – Introduction
Frederick Jackson Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American
History,” [1894]
– for digital version, see Neptune’s Needle -- http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/maritime/
W. Jeffrey Bolster, “Putting
the Ocean in Atlantic History: Maritime Communities and Marine Ecology in the
Northwest Atlantic, 1500-1800,”
American Historical
Review, Vol. 113, No. 1 (February 2008), 19-47.
Related
Karen
Wigin, Peregrine Horden,
Nicholas Purcell, Alison Games and Matt K. Matsuda., “AHR
Forum: Oceans of History,”
American
Historical Review, Vol. 111, No. 3 (June 2006), 758-780
Daniel Finamore, ed., Maritime
History as World History (UPress of
Robert A. McCaughey, “By Any Other Name: The
Freshening of American Maritime History,” The New-York Journal of
American History
(Fall 2008),
in press.
2. For September 8
– Our Watery
Planet
Nathaniel Bowditch, American Practical Navigator [Bowditch
Online],
Chapter 31 – The Oceans
Chapter 32 – Ocean Currents
Chapter. 9
– Tides and Tidal Currents
Related
”The
Book of Genesis,” I,
1-31, The Bible
Related
Joseph Mitchell, “The Bottom of the Harbor,” The
New Yorker (1959), reprinted in Mitchell,
Up in the Old Hotel
(Vintage, 1993)
John Waldman, Heartbeats in the Muck: The History, Sea
Life and Environment of
York
William Kornblum, At Sea in the City: New York
Form the Water’s Edge (Algonquin, 2002)
3. For September 10 – Boats and Sails
Irwin Unger, “5. The Invention of the
Ship,” in The Ship in the
Medieval Economy, 600-
1600 (1980), 201-250. [ACLS E-History Book]
Related
Homer, “Book Three,” The Odyssey, (Robert Fagles translation), 457-475
http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/beatldb/file_dir/maritime/primary/homerexcerpts_.doc
4. For September 15 – Aids to
Navigation
Nathaniel Bowditch, “Chapter 7. Dead Reckoning,”
American
Historical Review, Vol. 68 (Fall 1963)
5. For
September 17 –
Letter
of Giovanni da Verrazzano
to King Francis I, July 8, 1524, digital version
in Neptune’s Needle [
“Verrazzano”]
Related
Sources on the Maritime Traditions Beyond Europe
:
George Hourani, Arabic Seafaring in the Indian
Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval
Times (
Gavin Menzies, 1421:
The Year
Robert Finlay, “How Not to (Re)Write
History: Gavin Menzies and the Chinese
Discovery of
Janet L. Abu-Lughad, Before European
Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350
(1989)
Felipe Fernandez Armesto, Pathfinders: A Global History of Expansion (Norton, 2006)
6. For September 22
– Coming Ashore, I:
Edmund S. Morgan, “Dreams of Liberation” and
“The Lost Colony,” in American
Slavery,
American Freedom (Norton, 1975)
Related Letters from
Philip Amadas, Narrative
of Philip Amadas [1584]
Richard Grenville, Narrative of Richard Grenville [1585]
Thomas Harriot, Brief and True Report
of the New Found Land of Virginia [1590]
Includes the John White/Theorore de Bry illustrations
Related Letters from
John Smith, A
True Relation (1608)
Related Secondary
April Lee Hatfield, Atlantic
Carville V. Earle, “Environment, Disease,
and Mortality in Early
Tate and David Ammerman,
eds., The
Press, 1979), 96-125
Karen O. Kupperman, “Fear
of Hot Climates in the Anglo-American Colonial
Experience, “ William and Mary
Quarterly, Vol 41, # 2 (April 1984 ),
213-240
Arthur P. Middleton,
Johns
John Seelye, Prophetic Waters:
The River in Early American Life and Literature (1977)
7. For September 24 – The Invention of Maritime
Required Secondary
William Bradford, Of
Ch. 8 [“the
Troubles at Sea”and Ch. 9 [“How They
Passed the Sea”]
John Winthrop, Account of the Arbella passage (May-July 1630)
http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/beatldb/file_dir/maritime/primary/winthroppassagel.htm
Required Secondary
John R. Stilgoe, “The
New England Coastal Wilderness,” The Geographical Review ,
Vol. 71 (January 1981), 33-50
David Cressy, “Vast and Furious
Ocean: The Passage to Puritan New England,”
W. Jeffrey Bolster, “Putting
the Ocean in Atlantic History: Maritime Communities and Marine Ecology in the
Northwest Atlantic, 1500-1800,”
American Historical
Review, Vol. 113, No. 1 (February 2008), 19-47.
Related Primary
Roger Williams, A Key to
the Language of
Cotton Mather, Magnalia
Christi
Deliverances]
Related Secondary
Nathaniel Philbrick,
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (Viking, 2006)
Bernard Bailyn, The New England
Merchant in the 17th Century (Harvard UP, 1955)
Bernard and Lotte Bailyn, Massachusetts
Shipping, 1697-1714: A Statistical Study (Harvard University Press, 1959)
Daniel Vickers, Farmers & Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in
(North Carolina, 1994)
8. For
September 29 – Mid-Atlantic
Beginnings & Finding Places in the Atlantic World
Required Primary
Robert Juet, with Henry Hudson in 1609, http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs216a1v,0,919043.story
Benjamin Franklin, “Log
of 1726 Atlantic Passage from London to Philadelphia”
Benjamin Franklin, “Log of 1757 Atlantic Passage from New York to Falmouth, England,” as per his Autobiography
Related Secondary
Accounts
Russell Shorto, The Island at the
Center of the World (Vintage, 2005) [on Dutch
T.H. Breen, Imagining the Past:
Robert C. Ritchie, Captain Kidd and the War Against
the Pirates (Harvard UP, 1986)
Donna Merwick, Possessing
(Cambridge UP, 1990)
Mark Kurlansky, The Big
Oyster: History on the Half-Shell (Ballantine
Books, 2006)
Carl Bridenbaugh, Cities in the Wilderness: The First Century
of Urban Life in
especially
Chs. VI (“The Economic Pattern”) and X (“Commercial
Rivalries’)
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9. October 1 –
First Hour Examination
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10. For October 6 – Maritime
“Log of the Slaveship
Polly, 1764-65,”
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano [1789]
–
digital version http://history.hanover.edu/texts/equiano/equiano_contents.html
Related Seconding
Marcus Rediker, Between the Devil and the
and
the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750 (1987)
David S. Cecelski, The
Waterman’s Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina
(
T.H. Breen,
Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters
on the Eve
of the Revolution (
Friendship,” pp. 84-123 [ACLS E-Book]
11. For October 8 – Dockside Grievances
Primary
Stephen Hopkins, “An Essay on the Trade of the Northern Colonies”
(1764)
The
The
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, esp.”Miscellaneous
Reflections on
Maritime
Prospects” (1776)
Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of
Related Secondary
Jesse Lemisch, “Jack Tar in the Streets:
Merchant Seamen in the Politics of
Revolutionary America,” William
and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 25 (July 1968), 371-
407.
Paul Gilje, “
Revolution,”
Evan Thomas, John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy (Simon & Schuster, 2003)
Richard Buel, Jr., In Irons: Britain’s Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy (Yale, 1998)
Thomas
M. Doerflinger, A Vigorous Spirit of
Development in Revolutionary
12. October 15
– Federalism and the “Navigational Interest”
Primary
The Constitution of the
Alexander Hamilton, “Federalist # 11”, in The Federalist Papers (1788)
13. For October 20 –
The Jeffersonian Turn Inward
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of
Thomas Jefferson to Robert R. Livingston, April 18, 1802 [on
the importance
of
Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis, June 20, 1803 [Instructions
for surveying
the
14. For October 22 – The War of 1812 and the Idea of an American Navy
Primary
The Embargo Act, December 22, 1807
James Madison, “War Message,” June 1, 1812
Report and Resolutions of the
[John Quincy
Related Secondary
Kenneth Hagan, This People’s Navy: The Making
of American Sea Power (1990)
George Daughan, If By Sea: The
Founding of the American Navy – From the Revolution to the War of 1812
(Basic Books,
2008)
Theodore Roosevelt, The Naval War of 1812 (1881)
15. October 27
– Inward Waters
& the Waning of the Navigational Interest in American
Politics
Primary
Albert Gallatin, Report on Roads and Canals [1808]
DeWitt Clinton, Memorial of the Citizens of
between
the
US Supreme Court, Gibbons v.
Related Secondary
Peter L. Bernstein, Wedding of the Waters: The
Nation (2005)
Robert W. Fogel, Railroads and
American Economic Growth (Johns Hopkins, 1964)
Ronald
Shaw, Canals for a Nation: The Canal Era in the
(U Kentucky Press, 1990)
16. October 29--
Second Hour Exam:
17. For November 5 – Try All Ports: The Heroic Age of
American Maritime
Secondary reading:
Samuel Eliot Morison, Maritime History of
Robert G. Albion, The Rise of
18. For November 10 – Life and Labor Before the Mast
Primary
Richard Henry Dana, Jr,
Two Years Before the Mast ([1840] Signet, 1964), esp. chapters 1-8
Digital version
-- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DanTwoy.html
Daniel Vickers, ed., The
Autobiography of Ashley Bowen, 1728-1813 (Broadview, 2006)
Related Secondary
Daniel Vickers, Young Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail
(2005)
Paul A. Gilje,
19. For November 12 – Black Jacks
Primary
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass [1845]
Secondary
W. Jeffrey Bolster, Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail
(Harvard, 1997)
20. For November 17 – Harborside Women & Gay Salts
Elaine Forman Crane, Ebb Tide in
1630-1800
(1998)
Margaret S. Creighton and Lisa Norling,
eds., Iron Men, Wooden Woman: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World,
1700-1920
(Johns Hopkins, 1996)
B.R. Burg, ed., An American Seafarer in the Age of Sail: The Erotic Diaries of Philip C. Van Bushkirk, 1851-1870 (Yale, 1994)
21. For November 24
– American Whaling as Business
Primary
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, or, The Whale [1851] [ Delbanco
ed.], chs 1- 52
Related Secondary
Eric Jay Dolan, Leviathan: The History of Whaling in
Briton Busch, ‘Whaling Will Never Do Me’: The
American Whaleman in the Nineteenth
Century (1994)
Andrew Delbanco, Herman
Melville: His World and Work (Knopf, 2005)
22. December 1
– American Whaling as Romance
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, or, The Whale [1851] [ Delbanco ed.], chs. 53- Epilogue
23. December 3 --
The Beginnings of American Marine
Science &
Marine Art
Primary
Benjamin Franklin,
“Sundry Maritime Observations,” 1785
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/libray/readings/gulf/gulf.html
Matthew Maury, The Physical Geography of the Sea [1855]
Related Secondary
Joyce Chaplin, [Benjamin Franklin] The
First American Man of Science and
the
Pursuit of Genius (Basic Books, 2006)
D. Graham Burnett, Trying Leviathan: The
19th-Century
Whale and
Trial and Changed the Order of Nature (
l
Nathaniel Philbrick,
Expedition,
1838-1842 (2003)
Robert
V. Bruce, The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876 (Cornell
UP,
1987), esp. “Agassiz’s
of Bureaucracy,” 29-42, 171-180 [ACLS E-Book].
Related
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Journal Account as Passenger of
an Atlantic Voyage,
December 1832 -February 1833”
Henry David Thoreau,
Alain Corbin, The Lure of the Sea: The
Discovery of the
(Polity Press,
1994)
William H. Bonner, Harp on the Shore: Thoreau and the Sea (1985)
Ann Douglas, The
Feminization of American Culture (Knopf, 1977)
John Wilmerding, A History of American Marine Painting (Little Brown, 1968)
Barbara Novak, Nature and Culture: American Landscape Painting, 1825-1875
24. December 8
– Coda to an Era: The Short Life of the American Clipper Ship
Primary
Horatio Greenough, Form and Function
Henry
Captain John Cressy, “Log of the Flying Cloud,” June 3 to August 31, 1851
Related Secondary
Robert Evans, Jr., “’Without
Regard for Cost’: The Return on Clipper Ships, “
The Journal of Political Economy,
Vol. 72, No. 1
(February 1964), pp. 32-43
Carl C. Cutler, Greyhounds of the Sea: The Story of the
American Clipper Ship
([1930]
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Postscript
Mark Twain, Life on the
Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs ([1896] Modern Library, 1995)
Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World ([1900] Penguin, 1999)
Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us ([1950],
John McPhee, Looking for a Ship (Farrar Straus
Giroux, 1990)
