Britain and the Regency of Tripoli

• Verfasst von: ElGaddari, Sara [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Britain and the Regency of Tripoli
• Titelzusatz: consuls and empire-building in nineteenth century North Africa
• Verf.angabe: Sara ElGaddari
• Verlagsort: London ; New York ; Oxford
• Verlag: I.B. Tauris
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: 203 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
• ISBN: 978-0-7556-4089-8
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Colonialism & imperialism
• Sach-SW: Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / Africa / North
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / Middle East / General
• Sach-SW: Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
• Sach-SW: Middle Eastern history
• Sach-SW: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
• Sach-SW: POL047000
• Geograph. SW: Nordafrika
• Geograph. SW: North Africa
• Zeit-SW: 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.)
• Zeit-SW: c 1800 to c 1900
• K10plus-PPN: 1831198126

Abstract

By the early 1820s, British policy in the Eastern Mediterranean was at a crossroads. Historically shaped by the rivalry with France, the course of Britain's future role in the region was increasingly affected by concern about the future of the Ottoman Empire and fears over Russia's ambitions in the Balkans and the Middle East. The Regency of Tripoli was at this time establishing a new era in foreign and commercial relations with Europe and the United States. Among the most important of these relationships was that with Britain. Using the National Archive records of correspondence of the British consuls and diplomats from 1795 to 1832, and within the context of the wider Eastern Question, this book reconstructs the the Anglo-Tripolitanian relationship and argues that the Regency played a vital role in Britain's imperial strategy during and after the Napoleonic Wars. Including the perspective of Tripolitanian notables and British diplomats, it contends that the activities of British consuls in Tripoli, and the networks they fostered around themselves, reshaped the nature and extent of British imperial activity in the region