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True Yankees is an excellent book contributing valuable information on America's early story... Anyone interested in the birth of our nation and how we entered into the world of commerce will find this a detailed resource. -- Cindy Vallar Pirates and Privateers Although part of US cultural and economic history, the role of long-distance sea trade in developing the nation's character and global outlook in the early national period has not been discussed until now... The book is informative and entertaining, a rare combination. Highly recommended. Choice In this book Dane Morrison discerns the beginnings of an American identity in an earlier period of American history by focusing more on the sea than the land through the maritime expansion outwards of the post-Revolutionary and ante-bellum early United States republic... What helps to give the book pace and human engagement is the way in which it is largely based around the lives and travels of a number of key individuals representing different periods and dimensions of what it meant to be what the book's title terms a 'true Yankee.' -- John Gascoigne Bulletin of the Pacific Circle An insightful, well-documented, and immensely significant work for the field of early American history. Morrison challenges an old historiographical tradition going back to Frederick Jackson Turner and beyond that the experience of the continental frontier made for a unique American identity. In contrast, Morrison contends that the 'fundamental American experience during the formative years of the new nation was lived on the waters that led to China, India, and Java'... True Yankees is an excellent and highly important study. Most of all, Morrison shows that although the United States had indeed become a full partner in community of civilized nations by the signing of the Treaty of Wangxi in 1844, it was not the country that men like Shaw, Delano, and Fanning had hoped to build. -- Michael A. Verney Naval Historical Foundation

True Yankees is an excellent book contributing valuable information on America's early story... Anyone interested in the birth of our nation and how we entered into the world of commerce will find this a detailed resource. -- Cindy Vallar Pirates and Privateers

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Dane A. Morrison is a professor of early American history at Salem State University. He is the author of A Praying People: Massachusett Acculturation and the Failure of the Puritan Mission, 1600-1690, and the coeditor of Salem: Place, Myth and Memory and the World History Encyclopedia, volumes 11-13: The Age of Global Contact.

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