American Travelers on the Nile: Early U.S. Visitors to Egypt, 1774-1839Oxford University Press, 2014 - 412 pagina's The Treaty of Ghent signed in 1814, ending the War of 1812, allowed Americans once again to travel abroad. Medical students went to Paris, artists to Rome, academics to Göttingen, and tourists to all European capitals. More intrepid Americans ventured to Athens, to Constantinople, and even to Egypt. Beginning with two eighteenth-century travelers, this book then turns to the 25-year period after 1815 that saw young men from East Coast cities, among them graduates of Harvard, Yale, and Columbia, traveling to the lands of the Bible and of the Greek and Latin authors they had first known as teenagers. Naval officers off ships of the Mediterranean squadron visited Cairo to see the pyramids. Two groups went on business, one importing steam-powered rice and cotton mills from New York, the other exporting giraffes from the Kalahari Desert for wild animal shows in New York. |
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 1 |
1 Americans in eighteenthcentury Egypt | 5 |
2 Napoleon and the French Savants in Egypt | 29 |
3 Mehmet Aliand his new Egypt | 37 |
4 The American Navy and Trade in the Mediterranean | 45 |
5 The European Presence in Egypt from 1815 to 1825 | 61 |
6 Americans Return to Egypt | 69 |
7 American Missionaries on Tour | 91 |
12 Traveling in Egypt | 195 |
13 John L Stephens and Fellow Tourists of the Mid1830s | 209 |
14 Steamship Travel | 229 |
15 Professional Visitors | 235 |
16 Mills Giraffes and Skullsand Even the Telegraph | 249 |
17 Shall We Meet in Egypt? | 267 |
18 Philip Rhinelander and His Friends | 285 |
19 After 1839 | 305 |
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