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

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; t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Goodin, Brett, 1987- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2020]
Series:	Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia.
Subjects:	O'Brien, Richard, > approximately 1758-1824. Cathcart, James L. > (James Leander), > 1767-1843. Riley, James, > 1777-1840. United States > History > Tripolitan War, 1801-1805. Prisoners of war (Islamic law) > United States > Biography. Prisoners of war (Islamic law) > Algeria > Biography. United States > Foreign relations > Africa, North. Africa, North > Foreign relations > United States. Diplomats > United States > Biography. National characteristics, American > History.

Table of Contents:

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.