Young men and the sea: The sociology of seafaring in eighteenth‐century Salem, Massachusetts∗

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes The authors would like to thank Farley Grubb, Marcus Rediker, Valerie Burton, Skip Fischer, and they wish to acknowledge the generous financial assistance of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Previous versions of this paper were presented to the Centre for Early Modern History Colloquium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota (1994); the Eleventh International Congress of Economic History, Milan, Italy (1994); the Maritime Studies Research Centre Seminar Series, Memorial University of Newfoundland (1995), and the Social Sciences History Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois (1995).