Erik de Lange

Menacing Tides (eBook, ePUB)

Security, Piracy and Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009364133
• Artikelnr.: 70909609

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.