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Book Review


The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World. By Frank Lambert. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2005. x, 228 pp. $24.00, ISBN 0-8090-9533-5.)
Recent encounters between the United States and the Middle East have provoked a reexamination of earlier encounters. Publishers eager to capitalize on contemporary interest in the Middle East have recast the wars between the United States and Algiers (1793–1796, 1815) and Tripoli (1801–1805) as foreshadowing the war on terror or the Gulf wars, and we have received solemn pronouncements of a clash of civilizations that caught Thomas Jefferson's generation and now is consuming ours. . . .
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