Transnational Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1821-1897
Journal: eScholarship (California Digital Library)
Year: 2018

Studies of Mediterranean piracy are usually restricted to the early modern period. This is because western intervention in the orient was believed to have brought about an end to piracy in the region, especially after French expansion into North Africa and the installation of a Bavarian monarchy in Greece. This dissertation analyzes transnational piracy in Greece and the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century showing that violent maritime crime continued to the centuryâs end. By looking