Britain and the Regency of Tripoli: Consuls and Empire-Building in Nineteenth-Century North Africa

Britain and the Regency of Tripoli: Consuls and Empire-Building in Nineteenth-Century North Africa
ISBN-10
0755640918
ISBN-13
9780755640911
Category
Political Science
Pages
217
Language
English
Published
2022-12-15
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Author
Sara M. ElGaddari

Description

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.

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