From Captives to Consuls : Three Sailors in Barbary and Their Self-Making across the Early American Republic, 1770-1840 /

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"This book explores how three white American sailors who lived in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Richard O'Brien, James Cathcart, and James Riley) turned their experiences of captivity in the Barbary States of North Africa into modest upward mobility in the form of diplomatic car...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goodin, Brett, 1987- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Riley, James, > 1777-1840.
Cathcart, James L. > (James Leander), > 1767-1843.
O'Brien, Richard, > approximately 1758-1824.
National characteristics, American > History.
Diplomats > United States > Biography.
Prisoners of war (Islamic law) > Algeria > Biography.
Prisoners of war (Islamic law) > United States > Biography.
Africa, North > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Africa, North.
United States > History > Tripolitan War, 1801-1805.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Opportunities of empire
  • Farmers, privateers, and prisoners of the Revolution
  • Diaries of Barbary Orientalism and American masculinity in Algiers
  • Captivity by correspondence
  • From captives to consuls and coup-makers
  • Accidentially useful and interesting to the world
  • Sailing the inland sea.

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