Description: Drawing on archival collections, newspapers, private correspondence, and government documents, From Captives to Consuls sheds new light on the significance of ordinary individuals in guiding early American ideas of science, international relations, and what it meant to be a self-made man.
Brief description: Brett Goodin is a Global Perspectives on Society Teaching Fellow at New York University Shanghai.
Review Quotes: Goodin's book is a contribution to American cultural history, especially of the dynamic and fluid period of the early republic, more than about cultural interchange between North Africa and the United States. His subjects are idiosyncratic, making it hard to draw too many conclusions about their lives and importance to America history.
--History Australia-- (1/1/2021 12:00:00 AM)