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Rough Waters: American Involvement with the Mediterranean in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Rough Waters: American Involvement with the Mediterranean in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Marzagalli, Silvia
Sofka, James R.
McCusker, John

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Series: Research in Maritime History, Book 44

General LawGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 0986497347
ISBN13: 9780986497346
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Jan 1 2010
Pages: 246
Height: 0.80 Width: 9.20 Depth: 6.10
Language: English
This study analyses the presence of American ships, merchants, and interests in the Mediterranean region in the first decades following the independence of the United States, and seeks to understand whether or not the English, Dutch, Scandinavians, and Americans invaded the region and its shipping industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It considers the following topics: the benefit of American neutrality during the French Revolutionary wars which enabled the growth of their shipping activities; the organisation of protection for American ships post-independence, particularly from Barbary privateers; the diplomatic efforts of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson and the relationships of convenience fostered by American powers when requesting European assistance; the development of American consular services to assist merchants and captains; the avoidance of incidents through peace and commercial treaties through to ship seizures and crew enslavement; and the impact of the

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