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010    $a 2019056151
020    $a 1421438976
020    $a 9781421438979
035    $a (OCoLC)1158505869
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100 1  $a Goodin, Brett, $d 1987- $e author.
245 10 $a From captives to consuls : $b three sailors in Barbary and their self-making across the Early American Republic, 1770-1840 / $c Brett Goodin.
246 30 $a Three sailors in Barbary and their self-making across the Early American Republic, 1770-1840
264  1 $a Baltimore : $b Johns Hopkins University Press, $c 2020.
300    $a xii, 210 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm.
490 1  $a Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
504    $a Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0  $a 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.
520    $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher.
600 10 $a O'Brien, Richard, $d approximately 1758-1824.
600 10 $a Cathcart, James L. $q (James Leander), $d 1767-1843.
600 10 $a Riley, James, $d 1777-1840.
600 17 $a Cathcart, James L. $q (James Leander), $d 1767-1843. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00163149
600 17 $a O'Brien, Richard, $d approximately 1758-1824. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01838814
600 17 $a Riley, James, $d 1777-1840. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00169341
651  0 $a United States $x History $y Tripolitan War, 1801-1805.
650  0 $a Prisoners of war (Islamic law) $z United States $v Biography.
650  0 $a Prisoners of war (Islamic law) $z Algeria $v Biography.
651  0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $z Africa, North.
651  0 $a Africa, North $x Foreign relations $z United States.
650  0 $a Diplomats $z United States $v Biography.
650  0 $a National characteristics, American $x History.
650  7 $a Diplomatic relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01907412
650  7 $a Diplomats. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00894415
650  7 $a National characteristics, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01033342
650  7 $a Prisoners of war (Islamic law) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01077254
651  7 $a Algeria. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205459
651  7 $a North Africa. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01239515
651  7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155
648  7 $a 1801-1805 $2 fast
655  7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896
655  7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628
830  0 $a Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
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