Crimes Against Feeling Piracy, Sympathy, and Ocean Politics in Antebellum American Legal Culture Book

Kelley, Mark B. (2026). Crimes Against Feeling Piracy, Sympathy, and Ocean Politics in Antebellum American Legal Culture .

cited authors

  • Kelley, Mark B

authors

abstract

  • Reading law and literature together, the book shows how emotional judgment--not political consensus--became a foundational tool for managing oceanic violence and transnational disorder in the nineteenth-century United States.

publication date

  • January 1, 2026

keywords

  • History

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 10

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13