The Treaty of Ghent signed in 1814 allowed Americans once again to travel abroad. Intrepid Americans ventured to Athens, to Constantinople, and even to Egypt. This book covers the 25-year period after 1815 that saw young men from East Coast cities 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.…mehr
The Treaty of Ghent signed in 1814 allowed Americans once again to travel abroad. Intrepid Americans ventured to Athens, to Constantinople, and even to Egypt. This book covers the 25-year period after 1815 that saw young men from East Coast cities 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.
Andrew Oliver is a retired art historian and museum administrator living in Washington, DC. With degrees from Harvard College and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, he was director of the Museum Program at the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency in Washington, from 1982 to 1994. Earlier in his career, from 1960 to 1970, he was a curator in the Greek and Roman Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Map of Egypt Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Americans in Eighteenth-Century Egypt Ward Nicholas Boylston John Ledyard European Travelers of This Period and Their Accounts Boylston in London and His Return to Boston 2 Napoleon and the French Savants in Egypt 3 Mehemet Ali's New Egypt Francis Barthow 4 American Trade and the Navy in the Mediterranean The Barbary Pirates and the American Navy Merhants in Smyrna and Constantinople American Merchants in Yemen Alexandria Tourists Only as Far as Sicily Tourists in Greece and Turkey before 1820 The War of 1812 5 The European Presence in Egypt from 1815 to 1825 European Diplomats Europeans Working for the Pasha's Enterprises European Merchants European Collectors and Researchers The British Passage to and from India Tourists 6 Americans Return to Egypt A Gentleman of Boston The Alligator Episode Cleopatra's Barge George B. English, Luther Bradish, and George Rapleje Egyptian Mummies 7 American Missionaries on Tour Pliny Fisk and Levi Parsons: Mission Postponed in Search of Health The Reverend Eli Smith in Egypt in 1826 8 The Eastern Question Americans and the Greek War of Independence The Greek Boy American Diplomacy Greece, Egypt, the Sublime Porte, and the European Powers American Shipping in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 1820s 9 The Lure of Egypt Egyptian Revival and the Description de l'Egypte Henry Oliver Cornelius Bradford Allen, Oakley, and Ferguson The Obeslisk from Luxor to Paris Mendes Israel Cohen John Gliddon, United States Consular Agent John Warren Americans Who Almost Went to Egypt Champollion and Pariset in Egypt 10 The US Naval Squadron: Egyptian Curios and Civilian Passengers The United States Squadron in the Mediterranean The First Encounter of the Squadron in Egypt The Warren, Charles W. Skinner, in 1829 The Concord, Matthew C. Perry, and the Kirklands in 1832 The Delaware and Daniel T. Patterson in 1834 The Constitution, the United States, the John Adams, and the Shark in 1836 The Constitution, Jesse D. Elliott, the Hon. Lewis Cass, and Henry Ledyard in 1837 11 Keepers of Diaries: 1833 to 1835 Eli and Sarah Smith John W. Hamersley J. Lewis Stackpole and Ralph Stead Izard, Jun. William B. Hodgson Rush and Rittenhouse Nutt John Lowell Two Brigs from Boston Reach Alexandria 12 Traveling in Egypt Travel in Europe Passports and Letters of Introduction Guidebooks Funds Hotels Dress Food Guides and Security Health 13 John L. Stephens and Fellow Tourists of the Mid-1830s John L. Stephens The Haights and the Allens "Mr. Dorr and Mr. Curtis" James McHenry Boyd A New Yorker in 1837 Henry McVickar and John Bard 14 Steamship Travel 15 Professional Visitors Rev. Edward Robinson, Biblical Archaeologist Dr. Valentine Mott, Surgeon Valentine Mott's Arabic Manuscript Henry P. Marshall, US Consul to Muscat 16 Mills, Giraffes, and Skulls (and even the Telegraph) Giraffes: From Sudan to Broadway Morse's Telegraph: From Paris to the Pasha 17 Shall We Meet in Egypt? Aaron Smith Willington, Publisher of the Charleston Courier "Mr. L. and Miss H." Simeon Howard Calhoun, Native of Boston A Nameless American Tourist in May 18 Philip Rhinelander and His Friends Rhinelander and His Friends on the Nile "Dreadful Accident on the Danube" Rhinelander and His Friends Leave for Vienna 19 After 1839 Illustration Credits Endnotes Index
Map of Egypt Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Americans in Eighteenth-Century Egypt Ward Nicholas Boylston John Ledyard European Travelers of This Period and Their Accounts Boylston in London and His Return to Boston 2 Napoleon and the French Savants in Egypt 3 Mehemet Ali's New Egypt Francis Barthow 4 American Trade and the Navy in the Mediterranean The Barbary Pirates and the American Navy Merhants in Smyrna and Constantinople American Merchants in Yemen Alexandria Tourists Only as Far as Sicily Tourists in Greece and Turkey before 1820 The War of 1812 5 The European Presence in Egypt from 1815 to 1825 European Diplomats Europeans Working for the Pasha's Enterprises European Merchants European Collectors and Researchers The British Passage to and from India Tourists 6 Americans Return to Egypt A Gentleman of Boston The Alligator Episode Cleopatra's Barge George B. English, Luther Bradish, and George Rapleje Egyptian Mummies 7 American Missionaries on Tour Pliny Fisk and Levi Parsons: Mission Postponed in Search of Health The Reverend Eli Smith in Egypt in 1826 8 The Eastern Question Americans and the Greek War of Independence The Greek Boy American Diplomacy Greece, Egypt, the Sublime Porte, and the European Powers American Shipping in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 1820s 9 The Lure of Egypt Egyptian Revival and the Description de l'Egypte Henry Oliver Cornelius Bradford Allen, Oakley, and Ferguson The Obeslisk from Luxor to Paris Mendes Israel Cohen John Gliddon, United States Consular Agent John Warren Americans Who Almost Went to Egypt Champollion and Pariset in Egypt 10 The US Naval Squadron: Egyptian Curios and Civilian Passengers The United States Squadron in the Mediterranean The First Encounter of the Squadron in Egypt The Warren, Charles W. Skinner, in 1829 The Concord, Matthew C. Perry, and the Kirklands in 1832 The Delaware and Daniel T. Patterson in 1834 The Constitution, the United States, the John Adams, and the Shark in 1836 The Constitution, Jesse D. Elliott, the Hon. Lewis Cass, and Henry Ledyard in 1837 11 Keepers of Diaries: 1833 to 1835 Eli and Sarah Smith John W. Hamersley J. Lewis Stackpole and Ralph Stead Izard, Jun. William B. Hodgson Rush and Rittenhouse Nutt John Lowell Two Brigs from Boston Reach Alexandria 12 Traveling in Egypt Travel in Europe Passports and Letters of Introduction Guidebooks Funds Hotels Dress Food Guides and Security Health 13 John L. Stephens and Fellow Tourists of the Mid-1830s John L. Stephens The Haights and the Allens "Mr. Dorr and Mr. Curtis" James McHenry Boyd A New Yorker in 1837 Henry McVickar and John Bard 14 Steamship Travel 15 Professional Visitors Rev. Edward Robinson, Biblical Archaeologist Dr. Valentine Mott, Surgeon Valentine Mott's Arabic Manuscript Henry P. Marshall, US Consul to Muscat 16 Mills, Giraffes, and Skulls (and even the Telegraph) Giraffes: From Sudan to Broadway Morse's Telegraph: From Paris to the Pasha 17 Shall We Meet in Egypt? Aaron Smith Willington, Publisher of the Charleston Courier "Mr. L. and Miss H." Simeon Howard Calhoun, Native of Boston A Nameless American Tourist in May 18 Philip Rhinelander and His Friends Rhinelander and His Friends on the Nile "Dreadful Accident on the Danube" Rhinelander and His Friends Leave for Vienna 19 After 1839 Illustration Credits Endnotes Index
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