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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hershenzon, Daniel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Western Mediterranean--History--17th century.

Slavery.

Communication--Western Mediterranean--History--17th century.

Communication.

Captivity--Western Mediterranean--History--17th century.

Captivity.

Ransom--Western Mediterranean--History--17th century.

Ransom.

Slave trade--Western Mediterranean--History--17th century.

Slave trade.

Western Mediterranean--History--17th century.

Western Mediterranean.

Western Mediterranean--Commerce--History--17th century.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]

Summary:

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, political, and economic levels.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Nov 2018)

ISBN:

9780812295368

0812295366

OCLC:

1046990217