The Book Report: The Barbary Wars (American Independence in the Atlantic World)

The Book Report Series: Highlights of some very great books about American history. A list of books everyone should have in their libraries. The Barbary Wars the 33 year war with the Moors of North Africa. The history of America’s conflict with piratical states of the Mediterranean runs through the presidencies of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison: the adoption of the Constitution; the Quasi-War with France and the War of 1812; the construction of a full-time professional navy; and, most important, the nation’s halting steps toward commercial independence. Frank Lambert’s genius is to see in the Barbary Wars the ideal means of capturing the new nation’s shaky emergence in the complex context of the Atlantic world. Depicting a time when Britain ruled the seas and France most of Europe. The Barbary Wars proves that America’s earliest conflict with Arab world (Moors of Africa) was always a struggle for economic advantage rather than clash of cultures or religion. FRANK LAMBERT— teaches history at Purdue University and is the author of The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America, Inventing the “Great Awakening,” and “Pelar in Divinity” George Whitefield and the TransAtlantic Revivals, 1737-1770.

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