LEADER 02467nam 2200325z- 450 001 9910583578903321 005 20231214133626.0 010 $a1-4214-2809-1 035 $a(CKB)5460000000023625 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88760 035 $a(EXLCZ)995460000000023625 100 $a20202207d2011 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aJoel Barlow$eAmerican Citizen in a Revolutionary World 210 $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d2011 215 $a1 electronic resource (448 p.) 330 $aPoet, republican, diplomat, and entrepreneur, Joel Barlow filled many roles and registered impressive accomplishments. In the first biography of this fascinating figure in decades, Richard Buel Jr. recounts the life of a man more intimately connected to the Age of Revolution than perhaps any other American.Barlow was a citizen of the revolutionary world, and his adventures throughout the United States and Europe during both the American and French Revolutions are numerous and notorious. From writing his epic poem, The Vision of Columbus, to plotting a republican revolution in Britain to negotiating the release of American sailors taken captive by Barbary pirates, Joel Barlow personified the true spirit of the tumultuous times in which he lived.No one witnessed more climactic events or interacted with more significant people than Joel Barlow. It was his unique vision, his unfailing belief in republicanism, and his entrepreneurial spirit that drove Barlow to pursue the revolutionary ideal in a way more emblematic of the age than the lives of many of its prominent heroes.Buel is a knowledgeable guide, and in telling Barlow?s story he explores the cultural landscape of the early American republic and engages the broader themes of the Age of Revolution. Few books explore in such a comprehensive fashion the political, economic, ideological, diplomatic, and technological dimensions of this defining moment in world history. 517 $aJoel Barlow 606 $aBiography: historical, political & military$2bicssc 610 $aBiography: historical, political & military 615 7$aBiography: historical, political & military 700 $aBuel$b Jr$4auth$01309596 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910583578903321 996 $aJoel Barlow$93029435 997 $aUNINA