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Prisoners of the Bashaw: The Nineteen-Month Captivity of American Sailors in Tripoli, 1803–1805

byFrederick Leiner

On October 31, 1803, the frigate USS Philadelphia ran aground on a reef a few miles outside the harbor of Tripoli. Prisoners of the Bashaw combines scientific research, fieldwork, and carefully chosen case studies, allowing the evidence to complicate easy judgments and familiar explanations. Seen through the lens of history and social science, Prisoners of the Bashaw explains not only what happened, but why competing interpretations still matter. By the end, the nineteen-month captivity of american sailors in tripoli, 1803–1805 emerges as a layered story of competing motives, unintended results, and choices made under pressure.

Publisher

Westholme Publishing

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781594163869