The Captive Sea : : Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean / / Daniel Hershenzon.
In The Captive Sea, Daniel Hershenzon explores the entangled histories of Muslim and Christian captives—and, by extension, of the Spanish Empire, Ottoman Algiers, and Morocco—in the seventeenth century to argue that piracy, captivity, and redemption formed the Mediterranean as an integrated region a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 1 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note on the Text
- Introduction
- 1. The Social Life of Enslaved Captives
- 2. Ransom: Between Economic, Political, and Salvific Interests
- 3. Negotiating Ransom, Seeking Redemption
- 4. Taking Captives, Capturing Communities
- 5. Confronting Threats, Countering Violence
- 6. Moving Captives, Moving Knowledge
- 7. The Political Economy of Ransom
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments