This is to announce publication of:
Jesse Lemisch, JACK TAR VS. JOHN BULL: THE ROLE OF NEW YORK'S SEAMEN IN
PRECIPITATING THE REVOLUTION (New York: Garland Publishing, 1997). Foreword by
Marcus Rediker. 200 pages. $41. ISBN 0-8153-2788-9.
This is my 1962 Yale dissertation, just published. Humm. JACK TAR VS. JOHN
BULL preceded my "The American Revolution Seen from the Bottom Up" and my
William and Mary Quarterly article, "Jack Tar in the Streets: Merchant Seamen
in the Politics of Revolutionary America" by six years. It pioneered in treat-
ment of the politics of seamen and of the crowd in the era of the American Rev-
olution. This is also a book with audiences beyond colonial history. It is the
beginning point of "New Left" history in the US and of "history from the bottom
up." It will be of interest to those who work in and/or think about the Ameri-
can Revolution, social history, "history from the bottom up," the 'sixties, and
the Left. (Marcus Rediker is the author of BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE
SEA.)
Until now, JACK TAR VS. JOHN BULL has only been available to researchers
able to examine it at the Yale Library. Now it can be bought from: Garland Pub-
lisihing, 1000A Sherman Avenue, Hamden CT 06514. Phone: (800) 627-6273, (203)
281-4487. Fax: (203) 230-1186. E-mail: info@garland.com. If you don't buy it
yourself, ask your library to buy it.
Jesse Lemisch (lemjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu)
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY