Patrick's Bibliography and Source

Note: I am currently considering changing my topic to an analysis of an early American conflict such as the First Barbary War or the invasion of Canada in 1812. This list represents primarily general sources intended to help me to that goal of choosing a topic.

Barbary Wars

1.     Allen, Gardner W. Our Navy and the Barbary Corsairs. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905. Print.

a.     I’m interested to examine how the historiography of the Barbary Wars and the US navy. I believe that will influence my analysis, even if I do not intend to write about the wars in popular culture and the American imagination. Having sources from the early 20^th century will help.

2.     Lambert, Frank. The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World. New York: Hill and Wang, 2005. Print.

a.     I plan to use this source to gain a general overview of the Barbary Wars, as well as others.

3.     Jefferson, Thomas, and Frank R. Donovan. The Thomas Jefferson Papers. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1963. Print.

a.     I hope to use Thomas Jefferson’s letters and documents from his presidency to analyze how American foreign policy operated with regard to the Barbary States. An added use would be to see Madison’s role as Secretary of State in comparison to his later actions as President.

4.     Nash, Howard P. The Forgotten Wars: The Role of the U.s. Navy in the Quasi War with France and the Barbary Wars 1798-1805. South Brunswick [N.J.: A.S. Barnes, 1968. Print.

a.     This source will allow me to focus more specifically on the Navy as I do broad initial research to determine which topics/themes are more viable.

5.     Neeser, Robert W. Statistical and Chronological History of the United States Navy, 1775-1907. New York: Macmillan, 1909. Print.

a.     Similarly to Allen’s and Nash’s works, an early 20^th century analysis of the Navy will hopefully include some substance for historiographical analysis.

Invasion of Canada/War of 1812

1.     Documents relating to the invasion of Canada and the surrender of Detroit, 1812, from the Public Archives of Canada

a.     I frankly do not know exactly what these documents will include. This set was off campus and I plan to pick them up from the library tomorrow.

2.     Berton, Pierre. The Invasion of Canada, 1812-1813. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1980. Print.

a.     I plan to use this source as a jumping off point to understand this part of the War of 1812, how it could relate to the Navy, and how it might compare to the Barbary Wars in terms of its distance from Washington.

3.     Cruikshank, E A. General Hull's Invasion of Canada in 1812. Place of publication not identified: Royal Society of Canada, 1907. Print.

a.     This is likely a general overview of the American invasion of Canada in 1812 from the Canadian perspective.

Source: a letter from Thomas Jefferson in 1801 to the Bey (governor) of Tripoli

To Yusuf Qaramanli, Pasha and Bey of Tripoli

May 21. 1801.

Great & respected friend.

The assurances of friendship1 which our Consul has given you,2 & of our sincere desire to cultivate peace3 & commerce with your subjects, are faithful expressions of4 our dispositions, and you will continue to find proofs of them in5 all those acts of respect & friendly intercourse which are due6 between nations standing as we do in the relations of peace & amity with each other.7 at the conclusion of our treaty with you we endeavored to prove ourselves contented with it8 by such demonstrations as were then satisfactory to you;9 and we are disposed to believe that in rendering into another language those expressions in your lre of the 25th. of May last which seem to imply expectations10 inconsistent with the faith of that transaction your intentions have been misconstrued.—on this supposition we renew11 to you sincerely12 assurances of our constant friendship and that our desire to cultivate peace & commerce with you13 continues firm & unabated.

We have found it expedient14 to detach a squadron of observation into the Mediterranean sea, to superintend the safety of our commerce there & to exercise our seamen in nautical duties. we recommend them to your hospitality and good offices should occasion require their resorting to your harbours. we hope that their appearance will give umbrage to no power15 for, while we mean to rest the safety of our commerce on the resources of our own strength & bravery in every sea, we have yet given them16 in strict command to conduct themselves towards all friendly powers with the most perfect respect & good order it being the first object of our sollicitude17 to cherish peace & friendship with all nations with whom it can be held on terms of equality & reciprocity.

I pray God very great and respected friend that he may have you always in18 his holy keeping.

“From Thomas Jefferson to Yusuf Qaramanli, Pasha and Bey of Tripoli, 21 May 1801,”Founders Online, National Archives, last modified July 12, 2016, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-34-02-0122. [Original source:The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 34, 1 May–31 July 1801, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007, pp. 159–161.]