From captives to consuls : three sailors in Barbary and their self-making across the Early American Republic, 1770-1840 / Brett Goodin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodin, Brett, 1987- author.

Series:

Studies in early American economy and society from the LibraryCompany of Philadelphia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners of war (Islamic law)--United States--Biography.

Prisoners of war (Islamic law).

United States--History--Tripolitan War, 1801-1805.

United States.

O'Brien, Richard, approximately 1758-1824.

O'Brien, Richard.

Cathcart, James L. (James Leander), 1767-1843.

Cathcart, James L.

Riley, James, 1777-1840.

Riley, James.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4214-3897-6

OCLC:

1199308422