Crescent Obscured The United States and the Muslim World, 1776-1815

Name: Crescent Obscured The United States and the Muslim World, 1776-1815
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ISBN: 9780195086126

ISBN-10: 0195086120

ISBN-13: 9780195086126

Edition: 1995

Authors: Robert J. Allison

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Looking at the Muslim world in the context of American ideas about freedom and slavery, Robert Allison traces the image of Islam in the American mind in the early years of the republic. Islam as a symbol had a particular resonance in the U.S. as the country constructed its ideology and system of republican government. Allison begins the story with Americans' first contacts with the Muslim world in the Barbary state of North Africa. In 1785 Algiers seized two American merchant vessels, and by 1815 some six hundred Americans would be held captive in the Muslim world. This provoked a debate in the U.S. forcing American diplomats in Europe, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, to take action.…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/25/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 5.81" wide x 8.56" long x 1.07" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Introduction
American Policy Toward the Muslim World
The United States and the Specter of Islam
A Peek Into the Seraglio: Americans, Sex, and the Muslim World
American Slavery and the Muslim World
American Captives in the Muslim World
The Muslim World and American Benevolence
American Consuls in the Muslim World
Remembering the Tripolitan War
James Riley, the Return of the Captive Notes
Index
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