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Won the Sharon Harris Book Award, granted by the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute In The Captive Sea , Daniel Hershenzon explores the entangled histories of Muslim and Christian captivesand, by extension, of the Spanish Empire, Ottoman Algiers, and Moroccoin 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, wh

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Author

Daniel Hershenzon

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812250480

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Western, Science, History