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The captive sea : slavery, communication, and commerce in early modern Spain and the Mediterranean /

The Captive Sea 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 at the social, politi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hershenzon, Daniel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
Edición:1st edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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