Menacing Tides - Security, Piracy and Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean

"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"--

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Erik de Lange, Erik (Universiteit Utrecht De Lange
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2024
• EAN: 9781009364140
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0936414-0
• No. of pages: 346
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, military history, International Relations, maritime history, Colonialism & imperialism, Diplomacy, Colonialism and imperialism, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Decolonisation and postcolonial studies