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Sailor's Hope

The Life and Times of William Cooper, Agrarian Radical in an Age of Revolutions

by (author) Rusty Bittermann

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2010
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773537736
    Publish Date
    Nov 2010
    List Price
    $110.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773537743
    Publish Date
    Nov 2010
    List Price
    $37.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773581173
    Publish Date
    Nov 2010
    List Price
    $95.00

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Sailor’s Hope provides a moving account of a multi-faceted man, tracking his engagement with the extraordinary changes occurring in the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds in the decades after the American and French Revolutions. William Cooper was born in poverty in industrializing Scotland. Without any formal education, he worked his way up through the British merchant marine to the position of captain on voyages linking Britain with Iberia and North America.

About the author

Rusty Bittermann is a professor in the Department of History at St Thomas University and author of Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island: From British Colonization to the Escheat Movement, and co-author (with Margaret McCallum) of Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island: Imperial Dreams and the Defence of Property.

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