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Finally, other series cover miscellaneous fields: The Public Statutes at
Large 1789-1845 (8 vol.), 1845-1867 series includes all the enactments of
Congress; therefore all the treaties signed with Algiers are included in it and
they are three only. A Compilation of Messages of the Presidents (10 vol.),
1896-1899 includes all the messages of the presidents of the USA to Congress;
volumes 1 and 2 cover the researched period. Naval Documents Related to the
United States Wars with the Barbary Powers (6 vol.), 1939-44, published by
the Office of Naval Records, Department of the Navy, is a valuable collection
because it includes all the reports of the naval officers who came in contact
with Algiers between 1794 and 1816.
In addition to the above mentioned official collection, this work
investigates unofficially published collections. These include a variety of
material including the writings and memoirs of the American political actors as
well as various collections of treaties—American and European. Primary
sources also include autobiographies, memoirs, journals, and travel accounts
whose writers had been, in one way or another, in contact with Algiers at
different periods of its existence.
D. CHAPTER OUTLINE
Chapter I of the research work sets the religious and historical
framework in which the Ottoman province of Algiers was created. It argues
that the rise of Muslim corsairing was an immediate consequence of Spanish
Reconquista and conquest of the North African cities, itself a projection of the
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