The Mediterranean in the Seventeenth Century
Author | : Minna Rozen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788899487294 |
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Author | : Minna Rozen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788899487294 |
Author | : Carlo M. Cipolla |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 75 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Money |
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Author | : Adrian Tinniswood |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2010-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1101445319 |
The stirring story of the seventeenth-century pirates of the Mediterranean-the forerunners of today's bandits of the seas-and how their conquests shaped the clash between Christianity and Islam. It's easy to think of piracy as a romantic way of life long gone-if not for today's frightening headlines of robbery and kidnapping on the high seas. Pirates have existed since the invention of commerce itself, but they reached the zenith of their power during the 1600s, when the Mediterranean was the crossroads of the world and pirates were the scourge of Europe and the glory of Islam. They attacked ships, enslaved crews, plundered cargoes, enraged governments, and swayed empires, wreaking havoc from Gibraltar to the Holy Land and beyond. Historian and author Adrian Tinniswood brings alive this dynamic chapter in history, where clashes between pirates of the East-Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli-and governments of the West-England, France, Spain, and Venice-grew increasingly intense and dangerous. In vivid detail, Tinniswood recounts the brutal struggles, glorious triumphs, and enduring personalities of the pirates of the Barbary Coast, and how their maneuverings between the Muslim empires and Christian Europe shed light on the religious and moral battles that still rage today. As Tinniswood notes in Pirates of Barbary, "Pirates are history." In this fascinating and entertaining book, he reveals that the history of piracy is also the history that shaped our modern world.
Author | : Stanley Walter Croucher Pack |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Mediterranean Region |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Carlo Maria Cipolla |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 75 |
Release | : 1984 |
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Author | : S. W. C. Pack |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Carlo M. Cipolla |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Author | : Fernand Braudel |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 2023-07-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0520400658 |
The focus of Fernand Braudel's great work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixteenth century, but Braudel ranges back in history to the world of Odysseus and forward to our time, moving out from the Mediterranean area to the New World and other destinations of Mediterranean traders. Braudel's scope embraces the natural world and material life, economics, demography, politics, and diplomacy.
Author | : Dr Brandon Marriott |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2015-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472435842 |
In 1644 the news that Antonio de Montezinos claimed to have discovered the Lost Tribes of Israel in the jungles of South America spread across Europe and the Ottoman Empire fuelling an already febrile atmosphere of millenarian expectation, culminating in the claims of Sabbatai Sevi to be the Jewish messiah. By situating this transmission in a historical context stretching back to 1492, this book reveals the importance of early-modern crises, diasporas and newsgathering networks in generating eschatological constructs and transforming them through a process of intercultural dissemination into complex new hybrid religious conceptions and identities.
Author | : Peter N. Miller |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 641 |
Release | : 2015-05-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674425774 |
Antiquarian, lawyer, and cat lover Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637) was a “prince” of the Republic of Letters and the most gifted French intellectual in the generation between Montaigne and Descartes. From Peiresc’s study in Aix-en-Provence, his insatiable curiosity poured forth in thousands of letters that traveled the Mediterranean, seeking knowledge of matters mundane and exotic. Mining the remarkable 70,000-page archive of this Provençal humanist and polymath, Peter N. Miller recovers a lost Mediterranean world of the early seventeenth century that was dominated by the sea: the ceaseless activity of merchants, customs officials, and ships’ captains at the center of Europe’s sprawling maritime networks. Peiresc’s Mediterranean World reconstructs the web of connections that linked the bustling port city of Marseille to destinations throughout the Western Mediterranean, North Africa, the Levant, and beyond. “Peter Miller’s reanimation of Peiresc, the master of the Mediterranean, is the best kind of case study. It not only makes us appreciate the range and richness of one man’s experience and the originality of his thought, but also suggests that he had many colleagues in his deepest and most imaginative inquiries. Most important, it gives us hope that their archives too will be opened up by scholars skillful and imaginative enough to make them speak to us.” —Anthony Grafton, New York Review of Books