Pirates of Barbary corsairs, conquests, and captivity in the seventeenth-century Mediterranean
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Riverhead Books,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prosperity at sea: the Mediterranean world
- Where are the days?: the making of a pirate
- Hellfire is prepared: turning Turk on the Barbary Coast
- The land hath far too little ground: Danseker the Dutchman
- Your majesty's new creature: pardons and pragmatism under James I
- Rich caskets of home-spun valour: fighting back against the pirates
- Treacherous intents: the English send a fleet against Algiers
- Fishers of men: The sack of Baltimore
- Woeful slavery: William Rainborow's 1637 expedition to Morocco
- The yoke of bondage: a slave's story
- Deliverance: the liberation of Barbary captives
- The greatest scourge to the Algerines: the occupation of Tangiers
- Breaches of faith: making peace with Barbary
- No part of England: The evacuation of Tangiers
- The king's agent: Life in late-seventeenth century Tripoli
- The last corsair: colonialism, conquest, and the end of the Barbary pirates.
