Title The captive sea : slavery, communication, and commerce in early modern Spain and the Mediterranean / Daniel Hershenzon

Edition 1st edition Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction -- 1. The Social Life of Enslaved Captives -- 2. Ransom: Between Economic, Political, and Salvific Interests -- 3. Negotiating Ransom, Seeking Redemption -- 4. Taking Captives, Capturing Communities -- 5. Confronting Threats, Countering Violence -- 6. Moving Captives, Moving Knowledge -- 7. The Political Economy of Ransom -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments Summary The Captive Sea 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 Analysis European History History Medieval and Renaissance Studies World History Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed July 6, 2020) Subject Slavery -- Western Mediterranean -- History -- 17th century Communication -- Western Mediterranean -- History -- 17th century Captivity -- Western Mediterranean -- History -- 17th century Ransom -- Western Mediterranean -- History -- 17th century Slave trade -- Western Mediterranean -- History -- 17th century BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Exports & Imports. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Marketing. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Trade & Tariffs. HISTORY -- Renaissance. Captivity Commerce Communication Ransom Slave trade Slavery SUBJECT Western Mediterranean -- History -- 17th century Western Mediterranean -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century Subject Mediterranean Region -- Western Mediterranean Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780812295368 0812295366 0812250486 9780812250480

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