Menacing tides : security, piracy and empire in the nineteenth-century Mediterranean / Erik de Lange, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands.

"Over the course of the nineteenth century, European states worked together to install a new order of collective security, legitimising the repression of piracy. Menacing Tides demonstrates how this European cooperation against shared threats remade the Mediterranean and unleashed a new form of collaborative imperialism"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.