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Rough waters : American involvement with the Mediterranean in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries /

This study analyses the presence of American ships, merchants, and interests in the Mediterranean region in the first decades following the independence of the United States, and seeks to understand whether or not the English, Dutch, Scandinavians, and Americans invaded the region and its shipping i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Marzagalli, Silvia, 1964- (Editor ), Sofka, James R. (Editor ), McCusker, John J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: St. John's, Newfoundland : International Maritime Economic History Association, 2010.
Colección:Research in maritime history ; no. 44.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Rough waters: American involvement with the Mediterranean in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: am introduction / Silvia Marzagalli, James R. Sofka and John J. McCusker
  • Worth a war? The importance of the trade between British America and the Mediterranean / John J. McCusker
  • Relations between North America and the Italian peninsula, 1763-1799: Tuscany, Genoa and Naples / Luca Codignola
  • American shipping into the Mediterranean during the France Wars: a first approach / Silvia Marzagalli
  • Notes toward a Franco-American Mediterranean 'from below' / Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
  • Consula and consiglieri: United States relations with the Italian States, 1790-1815 / Anthony J. Antonucci
  • Old and new republics: diplomatic relations between the Republic of Genoa and the United States of America/ Pierangelo Castagneto
  • 'From the halls of Montesuma, to the shores of Tripoli:' Antoine Zuchet and the First Barbary War, 1801-1805 / Victor Enthoven
  • Minorca: the first United States naval base in the Mediterranean and the American Consulate at Port Mahon / Miquel Àngel Casanoval Camps
  • 'The Jeffersonian idea of national security' revisited / James R. Sofka
  • The reluctant warrior: Thomas Jefferson and the Tripolitan War, 1801-1805 / Jeff Seiken
  • Slavery as social mobility? Western slaves in late eighteenth century Algiers / Christine E. Sears
  • Americans in the Mediterranean in the late eighteenth and early ninteenth century: concluding remarks / Elena Frangakis-Syrett.