Erik de Lange

Menacing Tides

Security, Piracy and Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9781009364140
• ISBN-10: 1009364146
• Artikelnr.: 69080509

Autorenporträt

Erik de Lange is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University. He completed his PhD within the ERC-funded research project 'Securing Europe, Fighting Its Enemies. The Making of a Security Culture in Europe and Beyond, 1815-1914'. In 2022-2024, he was a visiting research fellow at King's College London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Of knights and pirates. Barbary corsairing before and during the Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815
2. Opening fire. The Anglo-Dutch bombardment of Algiers, 1815-1816
3. 'To give law to the world'. Contesting security, 1816-1824
4. 'No security, except in destruction'. The French invasion of Algiers, 1827-1830
5. Beyond the Littoral. Treaties, colonies and legacies, 1830-1856
Conclusion.