Travels in England, France, Spain, and the Barbary States
Title | Travels in England, France, Spain, and the Barbary States PDF eBook |
Author | Mordecai Manuel Noah |
Publisher | |
Pages | 508 |
Release | 1819 |
Genre | Africa, North |
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Our Navy and the Barbary Corsairs
Title | Our Navy and the Barbary Corsairs PDF eBook |
Author | Gardner Weld Allen |
Publisher | Boston ; New York [etc.] : Houghton ; Mifflin |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | History |
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Captives and Countrymen
Title | Captives and Countrymen PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence A. Peskin |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2009-03-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0801898951 |
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the Barbary States captured and held for ransom nearly five hundred American sailors. The attacks on Americans abroad—and the government’s apparent inability to control the situation—deeply scarred the public. Captives and Countrymen examines the effect of these acts on early national culture and on the new republic's conception of itself and its position in the world. Lawrence A. Peskin uses newspaper and other contemporaneous accounts—including recently unearthed letters from some of the captive Americans—to show how information about the North African piracy traveled throughout the early republic. His dramatic account reveals early concepts of national identity, party politics, and the use of military power, including the lingering impact of the Barbary Wars on the national consciousness, the effects of white slavery in North Africa on the American abolitionist movement, and the debate over founding a national navy. This first systematic study of how the United States responded to "Barbary Captivity" shows how public reaction to international events shaped America domestically and its evolving place in the world during the early nineteenth century.
Barbary and Enlightenment
Title | Barbary and Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Thomson |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789004082731 |
This book, based on a wide range of eighteenth-century works, concerns European attitude towards North Africa in the century preceding the French conquest of Algiers in 1830. It studies the radical transformation of perceptions of Barbary during the period, essentially by placing them in the context of the different eighteenth-century systems of classification of the world. We see that uncertainty as to how to classify this region, its inhabitants, its form of government and social evolution - which led to its absence from most contemporary anthropological discussions - was resolved in the early nineteenth-century with the appearance of what were to become colonial stereotypes.
The Encyclopedia Americana
Title | The Encyclopedia Americana PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1068 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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The Americana
Title | The Americana PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Converse Beach |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1064 |
Release | 1912 |
Genre | Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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The Americana
Title | The Americana PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1214 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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