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Rough Waters
This study analyses the presence of American ships, merchants, and interests in the Mediterranean region in the first decades following the independence of the United States, and seeks to understand whether or not the English, Dutch, Scandinavians, and Americans invaded the region and its shipping industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It considers the following topics: the benefit of American neutrality during the French Revolutionary wars which enabled the growth of their shipping activities; the organisation of protection for American ships post-independence, particularly from Barbary privateers; the diplomatic efforts of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson and the relationships...
Història de Menorca
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The Kings of Algiers
"This book tells the story of two Jewish trading families based in the port of Algiers, who played a key role in Mediterranean commerce and in international diplomacy -- between European powers and between Europe and the Ottoman Empire -- in the early 19th century"--
Biblioteques, llibres i lectors
Important estudi de la cultura menorquina del segle XVII tot prenent com a fil conductor les biblioteques, les lectures i els lectors illencs. A partir dels inventaris de més d'un centenar de biblioteques, així com d'altres fonts a l'abast, descobrim aspectes com les formes d'intercanvi dels llibres, la sociologia dels lectors i la seva formació intel·lectual, la composició temàtica dels fons bibliogràfics i les lectures representatives. En coedició amb l'Institut Menorquí d'Estudis.
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 38
Volume 38 opens on 1 July 1802, when Jefferson is in Washington, and closes on 12 November, when he is again there. For the last week of July and all of August and September, he resides at Monticello. Frequent correspondence with his heads of department and two visits with Secretary of State James Madison, however, keep the president abreast of matters of state. Upon learning in August of the declaration of war by Mawlay Sulayman, the sultan of Morocco, much of the president's and the cabinet's attention is focused on that issue, as they struggle to balance American diplomatic efforts with reliance on the country's naval power in the Mediterranean. Jefferson terms the sultan's actions "palpa...
