W. Jeffrey Bolster

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W. Jeffrey Bolster is a professor emeritus of history at the University of New Hampshire in the United States, and the author of The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail, [1] which won the 2013 Bancroft Prize in history of the Americas, [2] and the 2013 Albert J. Beveridge Award. He also wrote Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail [3] which won the 1997 Wesley Logan Prize of the American Historical Association.

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Biography

Bolster received a BA degree from Trinity College in 1976, a MA from Brown University in 1984, and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1992. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Bolster, W. Jeffrey. The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. ISBN   9780674047655 WorldCat item record
  2. ↑ Columbia University Library,2013 Bancroft Winners Announced. accessed 27 June 2013
  3. ↑ Bolster, W. Jeffrey. Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail, published in Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1997, ISBN   9780674076273 WorldCat item record
  4. ↑ Official Web Page at University of New Hampshire


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