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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Goodin, Brett, 1987- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:"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 careers; their bids for betterment reflect important commercial, ideological, and diplomatic developments of the early American republic at a time when it began expanding westward"--
Description matérielle:1 online resource (224 pages).
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781421438986

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