The Barbary Wars

by Frank Lambert

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The history of America''s conflict with the piratical states of the Mediterranean runs through the presidencies of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison; the adoption of the Constitution; the Quasi-War with France and the War of 1812; the constru... Read more

The history of America''s conflict with the piratical states of the Mediterranean runs through the presidencies of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison; the adoption of the Constitution; the Quasi-War with France and the War of 1812; the construction of a full-time professional navy; and, most important, the nation''s haltering steps toward commercial independence. Frank Lambert''s genius is to see in the Barbary Wars the ideal means of capturing the new nation''s shaky emergence in the complex context of the Atlantic world.

Depicting a time when Britain ruled the seas and France most of Europe, The Barbary Wars proves America''s earliest conflict with the Arabic world was always a struggle for economic advantage rather than any clash of cultures or religions.

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File size8.28 X 5.58 X 0.72 in
Print pages256
PublisherFarrar, Straus And Giroux
Publication date January 9, 2007
Languageeng
ISBN9780374707279
Frank Lambert is Professor of History at Purdue University....

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