W. Jeffrey Bolster is a professor of history at the

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in the United States, and the author of ''The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail'',Bolster, W. Jeffrey. The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.
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/ref> which won the 2013 Bancroft Prize in history of the Americas, and the 2013

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. He also wrote ''Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail'' which won the 1997

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of the

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Biography

Bolster received a BA degree from

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in 1976, a MA from

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in 1984, and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1992.Official Web Page at University of New Hampshire
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Awards

* Roger Revelle Lecture (2018)

References

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