Overview
- Explores the struggle for control over the late eighteenth-century Western Mediterranean
- Analyses the struggle within the ideologies of competing powers
- Studies the role of ideology in Revolutionary France, as well as Tuscany, Toulon, Algiers, Spain and Corsica
Part of the book series: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850 (WCS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book investigates the conflict over control over the Western Mediterranean in the late eighteenth-century. The Western Mediterranean during the 1790s featured a constant struggle for control over the region. While most histories point to military events such as the Italian Campaign as descriptive of this struggle between the two competing ideological forces of Revolutionary France and the Counter-Revolutionary First Coalition led by Britain, this book takes a different approach. Rather than looking at the struggle between ideologies, this book looks at the struggle within those ideologies, arguing that the Western Mediterranean states were not simply the battlefields or the prizes of the struggle, but were active participants with goals of autonomy or neutrality. The focus stretches beyond conflict between France and Britain, into the adaptation of ideology for different uses in Tuscany, Toulon, Algiers, Spain, and especially Corsica.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Joshua Meeks is Assistant Professor at Northwest University, USA. He has previously taught at Florida State University and has worked with the INTO Pathways Program at University of South Florida. He specializes in British and French imperial history during the Age of Revolutions, along with Modern India and Environmental history.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: France, Britain, and the Struggle for the Revolutionary Western Mediterranean
Authors: Joshua Meeks
Series Title: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44078-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44077-4Published: 10 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82977-7Published: 13 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44078-1Published: 23 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6699
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6702
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 212
Topics: History of Early Modern Europe, History of Military, History of France, Political History, History of Modern Europe