Jack Tars and Commodores: The American Navy, 1783-1815

by William M. Fowler Jr.

An authoritative account of the United States Navy from Independence through the War of 1812. 318 pages including List of Illustrations and Maps, Appendix: Rules and Regulations for the Government of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395353149
• ISBN13: 9780395353141
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The best history yet written about the early US Navy

Mr. Fowler is a highly regarded historian and a skillful writer, and this is the best book about the early US Navy that I have yet found. It is a complex story but an important one, and it weaves together the many disparate aspects of the history in a way that gives you a complete picture of the era. Combined with his other book, Rebels Under Sail, about the American revolutionary navy, the picture one takes away is of a young nation struggling with basic questions of national sovereignty beyond the water's edge. A fascinating and strangely neglected aspect of our early national life.