Early Republic and the Sea: Essays on the Naval and Maritime History of the Early United States Book

	Illustrations
	Introduction
Pt. 1	Maritime Commerce and the Sea Services	1
1	The Naval Movement of the Confederation Era	3
2	Patterns of Northern New England Smuggling, 1789-1820	35
3	Charting a New Course for the China Trade: The Late Eighteenth-Century American Model	55
4	The Lady Washington at Kushimoto, Japan, in 1791	83
5	Daniel Caulkins's Voyage: An Incident of the Quasi-War	101
6	Lewis Warrington and the USS Peacock in the Sunda Strait, June 1815	115
7	War on the Slave Trade: Changing Fortunes in Antebellum U.S. Courts of the Mid-Atlantic South	139
Pt. 2	James Fenimore Cooper and the Birth of American Maritime Experience	191
8	Enabling and Disabling the Lake Erie Discussion: James Fenimore Cooper and Alexander Slidell MacKenzie Respond to the Perry-Elliott Controversy	193
9	Nelson Resartus: Legitimate Order in Cooper's Fleet Novel	207
10	Fact and Fiction: The Uses of Maritime History in Cooper's Afloat and Ashore	215
11	Cooper as Passenger	225
	Index	238
	About the Contributors	254