Menacing Tides

Menacing Tides

Security, Piracy and Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean

de Lange, Erik

Cambridge University Press

04/2024

346

Dura

Inglês

9781009364140

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction; 1. Of knights and pirates. Barbary corsairing before and during the Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815; 2. Opening fire. The Anglo-Dutch bombardment of Algiers, 1815-1816; 3. 'To give law to the world'. Contesting security, 1816-1824; 4. 'No security, except in destruction'. The French invasion of Algiers, 1827-1830; 5. Beyond the Littoral. Treaties, colonies and legacies, 1830-1856; Conclusion.