On Thursday 19 September, Erik de Lange will present his recently published book Menacing Tides: Security, Piracy and Empire in the Nineteenth Century Mediterranean. With this, De Lange kicks off the Security History Network’s new lecture series.
New ideas of security
As European states ended their military conflicts in the nineteenth century, they turned their attention to the pirate nests in Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli. Naval commanders, diplomats, merchant lobbies, and activists cooperated for the first time against this shared threat and installed a new order of security at sea.
How did this cooperation remade the Mediterranean and why did it unleash a new form of collaborative imperialism? The book launch will be accompanied by a roundtable discussion with Annelien de Dijn, Cedric Ryngaert (both Utrecht University), and Michael Talbot (University of Greenwich). After the launch, there will be drinks.
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