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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
Autor principal: Marzagalli, Silvia
Otros Autores: Sofka, James R., McCusker, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Liverpool University Press, 2017.
Colección:Research in Maritime History LUP.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About the Editors; Contributors' Notes; Rough Waters: American Involvement in the Mediterranean in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: An Introduction; Worth a War? The Importance of the Trade between British America and the Mediterranean; Relations between North America and the Italian Peninsula, 1763-1799: Tuscany, Genoa and Naples; American Shipping into the Mediterranean during the French Wars: A First Approach; Notes toward a Franco-American Mediterranean 'From Below'
  • Consuls and Consiglieri: United States Relations with the Italian States, 1790-1815Old and New Republics: Diplomatic Relations between the Republic of Genoa and the United States of America; From the Halls of Montesuma, to the Shores of Tripoli:' Antoine Zuchet and the First Barbary War, 1801-1805; Minorca: The First United States Naval Base in the Mediterranean and the American Consulate at Port Mahon; 'The Jeffersonian Idea of National Security' Revisited; The Reluctant Warrior: Thomas Jefferson and the Tripolitan War, 1801-1805.