- List of Maps*
- Prologue
- 1. The Common Sense of Nationality
- 2. Britons or Americans?
- 3. America Afloat
- 4. Nation in the Storm
- 5. The Crisis
- 6. The Struggle
- 7. Sailors into Citizens
- 8. Paper Citizens on a Paper Sea
- Epilogue
- Appendix: The Records of the London Agency
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- * Maps
- 1. The Atlantic world, circa 1776
- 2. Europe, circa 1789
- 3. The Caribbean, circa 1794
- 4. Citizenship certificates issued by collectors of customs, 1796–1802
- 5. Certification of a sailor’s citizenship, circa 1812