Menacing tides : security, piracy and empire in the nineteenth-century Mediterranean / Erik de Lange.
| Author/creator | Lange, Erik de, 1991- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024. |
| Copyright Date | ©2024 |
| Description | vi, 335 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Security, piracy and empire in the nineteenth-century Mediterranean |
| Contents | Of knights and pirates, Barbary corsairing before and during the Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815 -- Opening fire: The Anglo-Dutch bombardment of Algiers, 1815-1816 -- "To give law to the world" : contesting security, 1816-1824 -- "No security, except in destruction" : the French invasion of Algiers, 1827-1830 -- Beyond the littoral : Treaties, colonies and legacies, 1830-1856. |
| Abstract | "Over the course of the nineteenth century, European states worked together to install a new order of collective security, legitimising the repression of piracy. Menacing Tides demonstrates how this European cooperation against shared threats remade the Mediterranean and unleashed a new form of collaborative imperialism"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Lange, Erik de, 1991- Menacing tides Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023 9781009364126 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2023038833 |
| ISBN | 9781009364140 |
| ISBN | 1009364146 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781009364119 paperback |
| ISBN | 1009364111 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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