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The Captive Sea
Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean
Taschenbuch von Daniel Hershenzon
Sprache: Englisch

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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 helped shape the Mediterranean as an integrated region at the social, political, and economic levels. Despite their confessional differences, the lives of captives and captors alike were connected in a political economy of ransom and communication networks shaped by Spanish, Ottoman, and Moroccan rulers; ecclesiastic institutions; Jewish, Muslim, and Christian intermediaries; and the captives themselves, as well as their kin.

Hershenzon offers both a comprehensive analysis of competing projects for maritime dominance and a granular investigation of how individual lives were tragically upended by these agendas. He takes a close look at the tightly connected and ultimately failed attempts to ransom an Algerian Muslim girl sold into slavery in Livorno in 1608; the son of a Spanish marquis enslaved by pirates in Algiers and brought to Istanbul, where he converted to Islam; three Spanish Trinitarian friars detained in Algiers on the brink of their departure for Spain in the company of Christians they had redeemed; and a high-ranking Ottoman official from Alexandria, captured in 1613 by the Sicilian squadron of Spain.

Examining the circulation of bodies, currency, and information in the contested Mediterranean, Hershenzon concludes that the practice of ransoming captives, a procedure meant to separate Christians from Muslims, had the unintended consequence of tightly binding Iberia to the Maghrib.

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 helped shape the Mediterranean as an integrated region at the social, political, and economic levels. Despite their confessional differences, the lives of captives and captors alike were connected in a political economy of ransom and communication networks shaped by Spanish, Ottoman, and Moroccan rulers; ecclesiastic institutions; Jewish, Muslim, and Christian intermediaries; and the captives themselves, as well as their kin.

Hershenzon offers both a comprehensive analysis of competing projects for maritime dominance and a granular investigation of how individual lives were tragically upended by these agendas. He takes a close look at the tightly connected and ultimately failed attempts to ransom an Algerian Muslim girl sold into slavery in Livorno in 1608; the son of a Spanish marquis enslaved by pirates in Algiers and brought to Istanbul, where he converted to Islam; three Spanish Trinitarian friars detained in Algiers on the brink of their departure for Spain in the company of Christians they had redeemed; and a high-ranking Ottoman official from Alexandria, captured in 1613 by the Sicilian squadron of Spain.

Examining the circulation of bodies, currency, and information in the contested Mediterranean, Hershenzon concludes that the practice of ransoming captives, a procedure meant to separate Christians from Muslims, had the unintended consequence of tightly binding Iberia to the Maghrib.

Über den Autor
Daniel Hershenzon
Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note on the Text

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Social Life of Enslaved Captives

Chapter 2. Ransom: Between Economic, Political, and Salvific Interests

Chapter 3. Negotiating Ransom, Seeking Redemption

Chapter 4. Taking Captives, Capturing Communities

Chapter 5. Confronting Threats, Countering Violence

Chapter 6. Moving Captives, Moving Knowledge

Chapter 7. The Political Economy of Ransom

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Wirtschaft International
Genre: Importe, Wirtschaft
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781512825527
ISBN-10: 1512825522
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hershenzon, Daniel
Hersteller: University of Pennsylvania Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 226 x 155 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Daniel Hershenzon
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.08.2023
Gewicht: 0,452 kg
Artikel-ID: 132514663
Über den Autor
Daniel Hershenzon
Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note on the Text

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Social Life of Enslaved Captives

Chapter 2. Ransom: Between Economic, Political, and Salvific Interests

Chapter 3. Negotiating Ransom, Seeking Redemption

Chapter 4. Taking Captives, Capturing Communities

Chapter 5. Confronting Threats, Countering Violence

Chapter 6. Moving Captives, Moving Knowledge

Chapter 7. The Political Economy of Ransom

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Wirtschaft International
Genre: Importe, Wirtschaft
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781512825527
ISBN-10: 1512825522
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hershenzon, Daniel
Hersteller: University of Pennsylvania Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 226 x 155 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Daniel Hershenzon
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.08.2023
Gewicht: 0,452 kg
Artikel-ID: 132514663
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