Rough waters : American involvement with the Mediterranean in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / edited by Silvia Marzagalli, James R. Sofka and John J. McCusker.

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Publication InfoSt. John's, Nfld. : International Maritime Economic History Association, 2010.
Descriptionvi, 232 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm.
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Other author/creatorMarzagalli, Silvia, editor.
Other author/creatorSofka, James R., editor.
Other author/creatorMcCusker, John J., editor.
Other author/creatorInternational Maritime Economic History Association.
SeriesResearch in maritime history, 1188-3928 ; no. 44
Research in maritime history no. 44. ^A467684
Contents Rough waters: American involvement with the Mediterranean in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: am introduction / Silvia Marzagalli, James R. Sofka and John J. McCusker -- Worth a war? The importance of the trade between British America and the Mediterranean / John J. McCusker -- Relations between North America and the Italian peninsula, 1763-1799: Tuscany, Genoa and Naples / Luca Codignola -- American shipping into the Mediterranean during the France Wars: a first approach / Silvia Marzagalli -- Notes toward a Franco-American Mediterranean 'from below' / Nathan Perl-Rosenthal -- Consula and consiglieri: United States relations with the Italian States, 1790-1815 / Anthony J. Antonucci -- Old and new republics: diplomatic relations between the Republic of Genoa and the United States of America/ Pierangelo Castagneto -- 'From the halls of Montesuma, to the shores of Tripoli:' Antoine Zuchet and the First Barbary War, 1801-1805 / Victor Enthoven -- Minorca: the first United States naval base in the Mediterranean and the American Consulate at Port Mahon / Miquel Àngel Casanoval Camps -- 'The Jeffersonian idea of national security' revisited / James R. Sofka -- The reluctant warrior: Thomas Jefferson and thr Tripolitan War, 1801-1805 / Jeff Seiken -- Slavery as social mobility? Western slaves in late eighteenth century Algiers / Christine E. Sears -- Americans in the Mediterranean in the late eighteenth and early ninteenth century: concluding remarks / Elena Frangakis-Syrett.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
ISBN9780986497346
ISBN0986497347