Britain and Barbary, 1589-1689 - Hardcover

Matar, Nabil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 081302871X ISBN 13: 9780813028712

Verlag: University Press of Florida, 2006

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"This important and fascinating study of early modern England's relationship to North Africa by the foremost expert on the topic is magisterial in its reach and groundbreaking in the implications it holds for seventeenth-century English culture and political history." - Mihoko Suzuki, University of Miami"

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Matar examines the influence of Mediterranean piracy and diplomacy on early modern British history and identity. Drawing on published and unpublished literary, commercial, and epistolary sources, he situates British maritime activity and national politics, especially in relation to the Civil War, within the international context of Anglo-Magharibi encounters. Before there was the British encounter with America, there was the much more complex and destabilizing encounter with Islam in North Africa. Focusing on specific case studies, Matar examines the impact of early visits of Moroccan officials on English playwrights such as Peele, Shakespeare, and Heywood; the captivity of thousands of British sailors in North Africa and its domestic consequences in the first women's protest movement in English history; the captivity of British women in Barbary, especially the English sultana Balqees; the absorption of thousands of ""moors"" into the British slave trade; and the aftermath of the colonization and desertion of Tangier. Matar shows that when Barbary was militarily and diplomatically powerful, its relations with and impact on Britain were extensive.

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• Verlag: University Press of Florida
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 081302871X
• ISBN 13: 9780813028712
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256