Description
Early Relation between Malta and U.S.A. deals with the political, social, economic and diplomatic crosscurrents that prevailed in the Mediterranean in the late eighteenth century, when the Maltese Islands were still under the domination of the Knights of St. John, and in the early nineteenth century when the Islands passed under British rule. It describes how local circumstances and foreign developments exercised a profound influence in shaping the nature and extent of the relations between Malta and the U.S.A.