The End of Barbary Terror
Subtitle: America's 1815 War against the Pirates of North Africa
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: May 11, 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780195325409
First sentence: IN 1762, when the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau famously began The Social Contract with the observation that man, who was born free, is everywhere in chains, the "chains" he referred to were the constraints imposed by living in a society with laws and government.