The Captive Sea: Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean Hershenzon Daniel
The Captive Sea: Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean Hershenzon Daniel In The Captive Sea, Daniel Hershenzon explores the entangled histories of Muslim…
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The Captive Sea: Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean Hershenzon Daniel
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. He takes a 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.