Policing the seas
Subtitle: Anglo-American relations and the equatorial Atlantic, 1819-1865
By: Mark C. Hunter.
Contributors: International Maritime Economic History Association.
Series: Research in maritime history -- no. 36
Publisher: International Maritime Economic History Association
Published: 2008
Place of publication: St. John's, Nfld
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780973893465
Subjects: Sea-power -- United States; Sea-power -- Great Britain; Law enforcement -- Atlantic Ocean -- International cooperation; United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Foreign relation -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-258).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Atlantic; title: Anglo-American policymaking, 1819-1834; title: Naval relations and the suppression of piracy and slaving, 1820-1830; title: A naval compromise, 1830-1842; title: The Royal Navy and West Africa, 1843-1857; title: The US Navy and West Africa, 1843-1857; title: Conflict avoidance in the equatorial Atlantic; title: The Civil War and conflict resolution in the equatorial Atlantic.