This study analyzes U.S. relations with the Barbary States from 1784 to 1805. After the American Revolution, the young nation found its commerce menaced in the Mediterranean by North African pirates sponsored by the rulers of Morocco, Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli. As the U.S. sou…
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My study takes as its theme the efforts of a representative body of British and American modernist prose writers to grapple with their places in history in the context of their collective sense of an ending, desired or otherwise. In this period of crisis, world wars, and the per…
The Eagle and the Crescent explores American Barbary tales of the late eighteen and early nineteenth centuries, including novels---Peter Markoe's The Algerine Spy in Pennsylvania (1787), Royall Tyler's The Algerine Captive (1797), and the anonymous Humanity in Algiers (1801)---a…
Hazardous Crossings: The Transatlantic Figure in American Print, 1784-1855 examines how transatlantic African and Jewish bodies in print provoked anxieties over the instability of the republic's rhetorical, racial and territorial borders. By focusing on the figure of the Atlanti…
This work studies the relations between the newly independent United States and the Barbary States in North Africa. The interactions between the United States and North Africa were major events in American history and had consequences that affected North Africa, Europe, and the …
This study, which examines the French experience of captivity in the Barbary States of Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli and Morocco, considers both the mechanics and perceptions of an often forgotten phenomenon that pitted Crescent against Cross and implicated tens of thousands of subjec…