dc.contributor.author	English, William A
dc.coverage.spatial	United States	en_US
dc.coverage.temporal	1800-1900	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2015-06-02T20:22:06Z
dc.date.available	2015-06-02T20:22:06Z
dc.date.issued	2015-05
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10428/2003
dc.description.abstract	George Bethune English was an important character in the history of multiple nations who has often been overlooked. His accounts of his journeys have widely been ignored until recent years. There are several reasons for his exclusion from history and most of the reasons center around tales of English’s insanity or American’s and European’s feeling that English’s actions made him a traitor to his own race. However, multiple sources take away any grounds these claims hold against English. Through an investigation into his life, a detailed account of English is presented. The account is built upon sources from English’s early life as a college student at Harvard, and follow him to the Middle East. English’s own account of his journey in the Sudan from Egypt is another valid source used to explore his life. From there, using dispatches between the Ottoman Empire and John Quincy Adams, the final part of English’s life is observed as a diplomatic agent for the United States. It also provides a perspective in the Western world of the era, and how they viewed individuals such as English. The other unique perspectives which English’s life reveal are those of a mercenary in Egypt and a diplomatic agent in the Ottoman working almost completely autonomously. This detailed depiction of his life grants an internal view into English’s world and shows that he was not a man driven by insanity or a traitor to his home and race, but rather an inquisitive mind whose thirst for adventure and knowledge truly never ended.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	Africa	en_US
dc.subject	Early America	en_US
dc.subject	Mercenaries	en_US
dc.subject	Spies	en_US
dc.subject	Ottoman Empire	en_US
dc.subject	George Bethune English	en_US
dc.subject	Islam	en_US
dc.title	Adventures of a 19th Century American Muslim: The Strange Tale of George Bethune English	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
dc.contributor.department	History	en_US
dc.description.advisor	Dunn, John
dc.description.committee	Bryd, Melanie S
dc.description.committee	Soady, Viki
dc.description.degree	M.A.	en_US
dc.description.major	History	en_US