Title:
The Barbary wars : American independence in the Atlantic world / Frank Lambert.
Author:
Lambert, Frank, 1943-
Publication Information:
New York : Hill and Wang, 2007.
Call Number:
E335 .L36 2007
Abstract:
"The history of America's conflict with the piratical states of the Mediterranean runs through the presidencies of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison; the adoption of the Constitution; the Quasi-War with France and the War of 1812; the construction of a full-time professional navy; and, most important, the nation's halting steps toward commercial independence. Frank Lambert's genius is to see in the Barbary Wars the ideal means of capturing the new nation's shaky emergence in the complex context of the Atlantic world. Depicting a time when Britain ruled the seas and France most of Europe, The Barbary Wars proves that America's earliest conflict with the Arab world was always a struggle for economic advantage rather than any clash of cultures or religion"--Back cover.
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Electronic Access:
Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0421/2004019361.html
Edition:
1st pbk. ed.
ISBN:
9780809028115
Physical Description:
228 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : iil., maps, portraits ; 21 cm.
General Note:
Originally published: 2005.
Contents:
The American Revolution checked -- Tribute or arms? -- Tributary to the Barbary States -- The cultural construction of the Barbary pirates -- The Tripolitan War : 1801-5 -- An uneasy peace : partisan debate and British harassment -- The Algerine War of 1815 and American independence in the Atlantic world.
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