Rough waters
Subtitle: American involvement with the Mediterranean in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
By: edited by Silvia Marzagalli, James R. Sofka and John J. McCusker
Contributors: International Maritime Economic History Association
Series: Research in maritime history -- no. 44
Publisher: International Maritime Economic History Association
Published: 2010
Place of publication: St. John's, Nfld
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780986497346
Subjects: United States; Armed Forces; Sea-power; History; Relations; Mediterranean Region
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Rough waters: American involvement with the Mediterranean in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: am introduction / Silvia Marzagalli, James R. Sofka and John J. McCusker; title: Worth a war? The importance of the trade between British America and the Mediterranean / John J. McCusker; title: Relations between North America and the Italian peninsula, 1763-1799: Tuscany, Genoa and Naples / Luca Codignola; title: American shipping into the Mediterranean during the France Wars: a first approach / Silvia Marzagalli; title: Notes toward a Franco-American Mediterranean 'from below' / Nathan Perl-Rosenthal; title: Consula and consiglieri: United States relations with the Italian States, 1790-1815 / Anthony J. Antonucci; title: Old and new republics: diplomatic relations between the Republic of Genoa and the United States of America/ Pierangelo Castagneto; title: 'From the halls of Montesuma, to the shores of Tripoli:' Antoine Zuchet and the First Barbary War, 1801-1805 / Victor Enthoven; title: Minorca: the first United States naval base in the Mediterranean and the American Consulate at Port Mahon / Miquel Àngel Casanoval Camps; title: 'The Jeffersonian idea of national security' revisited / James R. Sofka; title: The reluctant warrior: Thomas Jefferson and thr Tripolitan War, 1801-1805 / Jeff Seiken; title: Slavery as social mobility? Western slaves in late eighteenth century Algiers / Christine E. Sears; title: Americans in the Mediterranean in the late eighteenth and early ninteenth century: concluding remarks / Elena Frangakis-Syrett.