W. Jeffrey Bolster

W. Jeffrey Bolster is a Professor 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]

Biography

Bolster received his bachelor's degree from Trinity College, his masters from Brown University, and his Ph.D from Johns Hopkins University.

References

  1. ↑ Bolster, W. Jeffrey. The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail. Cambridge, Mass: 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, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997, ISBN 9780674076273 WorldCat item record


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