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

by Sara M. ElGaddari

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780755640911
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/15/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Sara M. ElGaddari holds a PhD from the University of Hull, UK. She is the editor of The Letters and Reports of British Consular and Diplomatic Agents in Tripoli, 1793–1832 (2020)

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

1. Introduction
2. British Imperial History before 1839
3. Tripoli: The End of a Dynasty
4. Tripoline Notables
5. The British Consul
6. An Imperial Bridgehead
7. Surveying New Frontiers: Intelligence-Gathering and Intervention
8. Concluding Remarks: Consuls and Empire-Building in Nineteenth Century North Africa

Annotated Index of Names
Bibliography