TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kalman,Julie
TI  - The kings of Algiers:  how two Jewish families shaped the Mediterranean world during the Napoleonic wars and beyond
SN  - 978-0-691-23015-3
U1  - 305.8924065 23E
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - JUIF
KW  - COMMERCE
KW  - IMPERIALISME
KW  - ALGERIE
N1  - Julie Kalman is associate professor of history at Monash University; Bibliogr. p. 229-247
N2  - In this panoramic book, Julie Kalman restores their story-and Jewish history more broadly-to the histories of trade, corsairing, and high-stakes diplomacy in the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath. Jacob Bacri dined with Napoleon himself. Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Horatio Nelson considered strategies to circumvent the Bacris' influence. As the families' ambitions grew, so did the perils, from imprisonment and assassination to fraud and family collapse
ER  -