The Captive Sea
Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9288789 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Hershenzon (0000-0002-8511-5514, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 304 |
| Publication date | 2018-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Captive Sea (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.9783/9780812295368 |
| OpenAlex | W2899222632 |
| Open Library | OL34076355M |
| ISBN | 9780812295368 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
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 formed 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
Ancient history · Archaeology · Geography · Islam · Political science · Politics · Ransom · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Communication · Europe · Fiction · Mediterranean Region · politics and government · Ransom, elwin (fictitious character) · Ransom, elwin (fictitious character), fiction · Slave trade · Slavery
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Between Welfare and Vagrancy
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Guerra y cautiverio en el Nuevo Reino de Granada, siglos XVI y XVII
Redentores de almas ante la Real Hacienda
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The 1538 peace treaty and conflict over the control of the frontier in Northern Morocco
The Black Sea Slave Trade in the 13th–14th century That Changed the Political Balance in the Near East
Moving Beyond Sex
The Lutheran Experience in the Ottoman Middle East
The Social Life of Wax in the Premodern Maghrib
As Slaves and Not Vassals
General Average, Human Jettison, and the Status of Slaves in Early Modern Europe
Fighting Calvin and Muhammad in Wall Almanacs after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Epistemicide
Introduction
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |