On the Waves of Empire
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On the Waves of Empire

U.S. Imperialism and Merchant Sailors, 1872-1924

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
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On the Waves of Empire

U.S. Imperialism and Merchant Sailors, 1872-1924

About this book

In the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, the United States' acquisition of an overseas empire compelled the nation to reconsider the boundary between domestic and foreign--and between nation and empire. William D. Riddell looks at the experiences of merchant sailors and labor organizations to illuminate how domestic class conflict influenced America's emerging imperial system. Maritime workers crossed ever-shifting boundaries that forced them to reckon with the collision of different labor systems and markets. Formed into labor organizations like the Sailor's Union of the Pacific and the International Seaman's Union of America, they contested the U.S.'s relationship to its empire while capitalists in the shipping industry sought to impose their own ideas.

Sophisticated and innovative, On the Waves of Empire reveals how maritime labor and shipping capital stitched together, tore apart, and re-stitched the seams of empire.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: The Seams of Empire
  8. 1 “A Leak in the Ship of State”: Maritime Labor Reform and U.S. Imperial Expansion, 1872–1900
  9. 2 Does Exclusion Follow the Flag? Imperial Labor Mobilization, Domestic Organized Labor, and the Emergence of a U.S. Metropole, 1902–1908
  10. 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, 1907–1915
  11. 4 Agents of Empire: Merchant Sailors, the Great War, and the New American Merchant Marine, 1898–1919
  12. 5 They Always Choose Exclusion: Internal Dissent, Postwar U.S. Maritime Policy, and the Fall of the Sailors’ Unions, 1915–1924
  13. Conclusion
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. Back Cover